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[Emacs-diffs] emacs/doc/emacs display.texi
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
[Emacs-diffs] emacs/doc/emacs display.texi |
Date: |
Sun, 04 Oct 2009 08:44:22 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /cvsroot/emacs
Module name: emacs
Changes by: Eli Zaretskii <eliz> 09/10/04 08:44:22
Modified files:
doc/emacs : display.texi
Log message:
(Horizontal Scrolling): Document cursor behavior under horizontal
scrolling when point moves off the screen (Bug#4564). Improve wording.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/emacs/doc/emacs/display.texi?cvsroot=emacs&r1=1.21&r2=1.22
Patches:
Index: display.texi
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RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/doc/emacs/display.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.21
retrieving revision 1.22
diff -u -b -r1.21 -r1.22
--- display.texi 27 Aug 2009 04:24:00 -0000 1.21
+++ display.texi 4 Oct 2009 08:44:21 -0000 1.22
@@ -209,13 +209,17 @@
If a window shows truncated lines, Emacs performs automatic horizontal
scrolling whenever point moves off the left or right edge of the
screen. To disable automatic horizontal scrolling, set the variable
address@hidden to @code{nil}.
address@hidden to @code{nil}. Note that when the automatic
+horizontal scrolling is turned off, if point moves off the edge of the
+screen, the cursor disappears to indicate that. (On text-mode
+terminals, the cursor is left at the edge instead.)
@vindex hscroll-margin
The variable @code{hscroll-margin} controls how close point can get
-to the window's edges before automatic scrolling occurs. It
-is measured in columns. If the value is 5, then moving point within 5
-columns of an edge causes horizontal scrolling away from that edge.
+to the window's edges before automatic scrolling occurs. It is
+measured in columns. For example, if the value is 5, then moving
+point within 5 columns of an edge causes horizontal scrolling away
+from that edge.
@vindex hscroll-step
The variable @code{hscroll-step} determines how many columns to
@@ -239,10 +243,18 @@
@kindex C-x >
@findex scroll-left
@findex scroll-right
- @kbd{C-x <} (@code{scroll-left}) scrolls the selected window to the
-left by the full width of the window, less two columns. (In other
-words, the text in the window moves left relative to the window.)
-With a numeric argument @var{n}, it scrolls by @var{n} columns.
+ @kbd{C-x <} (@code{scroll-left}) scrolls text in the selected window
+to the left by the full width of the window, less two columns. (In
+other words, the text in the window moves left relative to the
+window.) With a numeric argument @var{n}, it scrolls by @var{n}
+columns.
+
+ If the text is scrolled to the left, and point moves off the left
+edge of the window, the cursor will freeze at the left edge of the
+window, until point moves back to the displayed portion of the text.
+This is independent of the current setting of
address@hidden, which, for text scrolled to the left, only
+affects the behavior at the right edge of the window.
@kbd{C-x >} (@code{scroll-right}) scrolls similarly to the right.
The window cannot be scrolled any farther to the right once it is
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