Re: BUG in scroll-lock-mode?

[Ralf Angeli]

* Juri Linkov (2007-06-07) writes:

>>> I put (scroll-lock-mode t) in ~/.emacs, but it is still disabled after
>>> restart emacs. Is this a bug in scroll-lock-mode?
>>
>> Scroll Lock mode is a buffer-local minor mode, so your command will not
>> enable it globally.  You can enable it via a hook.  For example, if you
>> wanted the mode to be activated when browsing info files, you could do
>> this with something like (add-hook 'Info-mode-hook 'scroll-lock-mode).
>
> Why scroll-lock-mode is not bound to "<scroll>" or "<Scroll_Lock>" key?
> This would be much more useful than making a global mode.

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| An open issue is the key binding for toggling the mode.  If the minor
| mode should be able to be activated in some major modes but not in
| others, it doesn't make much sense to bind this to the Scroll Lock key
| which in my understanding means to enable or disable it globally (not
| just for Emacs but for other applications aware of it as well).
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Personally I have the following in my init file:

(let ((key (if (eq window-system 'w32) "<scroll>" "<Scroll_Lock>")))
  (unless (lookup-key (current-global-map) (read-kbd-macro key))
    (define-key (current-global-map) (read-kbd-macro key) 'scroll-lock-mode)))

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Ralf