From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/5392 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Roderick Schertler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: position of point in the *Article* buffer Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 14:22:04 -0500 Sender: roderick@ibcinc.com Message-ID: <235.825621724@ibcinc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035146002 32655 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:33:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:33:22 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA08478 for ; Thu, 29 Feb 1996 12:19:05 -0800 Original-Received: from uu6.psi.com (uu6.psi.com [38.145.155.3]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Thu, 29 Feb 1996 20:42:06 +0100 Original-Received: by uu6.psi.com (5.65b/4.0.071791-PSI/PSINet) via UUCP; id AA03483 for ; Thu, 29 Feb 96 14:23:27 -0500 Original-Received: from david by junior.ibcinc.com (5.4R3.10/IBC-1.25) id AA09237; Thu, 29 Feb 1996 14:22:08 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost by david.ibcinc.com (5.4R3.10/IBC/s-1.5) id AA00236; Thu, 29 Feb 1996 14:22:05 -0500 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5392 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5392 I've had a go at reading news from inside the *Article* buffer, and I think I like it. One disconcerting thing about it, though, is the way that point jumps around. Eg, if you're reading a 500 byte article and you SPC to go to the next article, and the next article is longer than 500 bytes, point is left 500 bytes into the longer article, in the middle of the screen. How about putting point at the start of the article buffer when a new article is selected? Slightly similarly, how about putting point at the top of the window rather than the bottom when paging backwards with DEL? This would leave the cursor in the same physical place on the screen when paging forward and back through articles and that would be more pleasing fsthetically than having it alternate between the top and bottom of the window, I think. A last idea: How about moving point in the summary buffer to track which article you've got in the article buffer? As it is now point sits still in the summary buffer, so you've got to find the current article yourself if you switch to the summary after reading from the article buffer. -- Roderick Schertler roderick@gate.net