Feature request

[Arjan van Dijk]

Hi Tony (and others),

> Looks cool. I'll give it a spin.

Great!

> I get a lot of what this gives using my diff macros (an old-ish version
of
> which is at http://www.nedit.org/niki/index.php/FileMerge; my version
relies
> on extra stuff built into my non-standard nedit) and TK Soh's Synchronous
> Scrolling patch (patch #774820 on http://sourceforge.net/projects/nedit).
It's
> one of the reasons I implemented the original rangeset functionality. To
do it
> properly though would require more work, in particular to allow an
arbitrary
> amount of vertical space to be displayed at a particular line-end.

But with the december holidays coming up, you have my faith! (-grin!-)


> Thorsten's Patch Collection includes a margin hairline which you can set.
> This is patch #1058246 on http://sourceforge.net/projects/nedit.

I'll have a look and try it. But migration to the regular code for me would
be preferable. Especially for such a useful feature!


>> - Independently from the former item, you can indicate if you want the
>> cursor to follow the ragged end-of-line locations during scrolling with
>> the arrow-keys, or allow it to go beyond the end-of-line (without
>> modifying the text as long as you don't type).
>
>I don't see the point of this unless, when you do type, the space between
>line-end and cursor is automatically padded.

I always get dizzy when the cursor shoots from one (vertical, what else)
column to another when I just press the down-arrow key.
And by being able to watch the cursor move from one location to another
without the EOL-dance, I can easily start a new line somewhere below the
current text directly at a preferred indentation. And, indeed, the gap
is automatically filled with spaces.

Regards,


Arjan