Feature request

[Tony Balinski]

Quoting Arjan van Dijk <Arjan.van.Dijk at rivm.nl>:

> Hi Thorsten,
>
> > I think YCDIWAM. I did synchronized scolling once to prove a point,
> > and the rest looks like nothing more than clever diffing and
> > backlighting.
>
> "You Can Do It Within A Minute"? My MLA's are a bit rusty. ;-)
> But your suggestion sounds doable. Only the synchronized scrolling
> is not in the current release isn't it? Is it reasonable to ask for
> implementation of TK Soh's patch in the next release?

I think the scrolling patch needs work. It works pretty well, but can
cause crashes when you scroll help windows. I made a small improvement
to fix that, but it's not bomb-proof. It could/should also be
implemented a bit more cleanly (improving encapsulation using a new
callback resource on the text widget rather than assuming knowledge
of its owner).

> > Interesting question: How could a GUI for this be integrated with
> > save_hook()? Should NEdit create and change the hook script?
>
> And then of course some people will want to activate this only on certain
> files...

Of course! Like the indent modes. I like the idea of GUIs for hooks, because
it gives an unambiguous visualisation of which code will be used; but it
means that we'd have to generalise the indent mode interface.

Perhaps a bit ambitiously, I would like to see this GUI and the macro
definition GUIs use NEdit's text widget rather than Motif's, with the
NEdit Macro mode applied.

> > UltraEdit does this, and I don't like it at all. That doesn't mean
> > that NEdit shouldn't support it, but it looks difficult.
>
> It would be fine for me if the default setting would be "ragged scrolling",
> as long as I can get rid of it. (-grin-)

I always called it "wiggle mode". "Non-wiggle mode" can be useful for exact
column placement in a hurry, but I just look at the status bar to see where I
am.

Tony