Re: Suggestion: A fringe indicator that shows the last/first line before scrolling

[David De La Harpe Golden]

On 28/02/2008, Lennart Borgman (gmail) <address@hidden> wrote:
> David De La Harpe Golden wrote:
>  > On 28/02/2008, Lennart Borgman (gmail) <address@hidden> wrote:
>  >> David O'Toole wrote:
>  >>  > I like this idea, I tend to have the same problem.
>  >>
>  >>
>  >> Me too.
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>  > I wonder if this could be implemented in plain Emacs Lisp?
>  >>
>  >>
>  >> A post command hook?
>  >>
>  >
>  > The recent onlist discussion around scroll-restore.el suggests that
>  > wouldn't quite work, anyway - not all scrolling thingys are commands.
>
>
> I guess I have expressed myself a bit unclear here. Stefan expressed
>  this better. See his answer to David O'Toole.
>
>  Or am I missing something?
>

Well, it depends - if you want to do it only for actual commands
scroll-up and scroll-down, then post-command-hook will presumably
work.  If you want to do it for "scrolling", then things like
scroll-bar scrolling may cause problems.