Re: Allowing point to be outside the window?

[John Ankarström]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
>
>> Why would anybody want this?  Why do you want this?  This isn't a
>> rhetorical question.  Because other programs do it isn't a satisfactory
>> reason. [...]
>
> The feature will be optional, of course.  And it will certainly be
> disabled by default, because I don't want it either.

For what it's worth, I think that it would be a good idea to limit this
feature to mouse-based scrolling. That's what I've been doing in my own
Elisp emulation of this kind of thing [1].

I agree with Alan that, if you primarily use the keyboard for scrolling,
it is very jarring if editing/movement commands bring the window view
back to the original position.

But the mouse provdides an easy way of overriding the original position
(by left-clicking on a new position).


[1] http://ankarstrom.se/~john/emacs/scroll-without-point.el