Re: [vile] Getting search result at top of screen - possible?

[Eur Ing Chris Green]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:40:57AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 03:29:16PM +0000, Eur Ing Chris Green wrote:
> > Is it possible to get the result of a search in vile to appear at the
> > top of the screen rather than in the middle?
> > 
> > I am using vile as a file viewer looking for the start of the block
> > that I want to see by calling it as:-
> > 
> >     vile -s <string> <file>
> > 
> > but this means I have to scroll the page up a few lines to see as much
> > of the 'useful' text as I can with the <string> at the top.
> 
> You could write a macro - since last fall's changes, "-s" is just a
> wrapper for one of vile's built-in commands.  Then inside the macro,
> you can manipulate the view as you want.
> 
That sounds like a reasonable way to do it, what command is "-s" a
wrapper for - or have I got hold of the wrong end of the stick?

-- 
Chris Green