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Subject: Re: [9fans] sam chatter
From: "rob pike, esq." <rob@mightycheese.com>
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Date: Mon,  7 Jul 2003 08:54:36 -0700
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>> On Sat 2003-07-05 at 14:34 Dan Cross wrote:
>> >        (1) Dragging below the boundary of the current window should
>> >            cause the window to scroll, selecting new text as it
>
> I've sometimes wished for it.  The workaround is to save dot
> within the current window, find the end of the desired text,
> then set dot to range from the old value to the desired end.
> If this is rarely needed then it's not worth the amount of
> hackery that it would take to implement (I looked into doing
> it once and gave up).

the 'k' command assists the work-around.

-rob