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Subject: Re: Emacs-like center scrolling?

Re: Emacs-like center scrolling?

From: Fabian Merki <fabian2005_at_merkisoft.ch>
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 21:22:32 +0200

hi pedro

i wouldn't like that - i already was surprised of the current behaviour
(although i almost got used to it *smile*) - it doesn't look natural to me.
staying on the first or last would be my favorite.

fabi

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pedro Vasconcelos" <pbv_at_st-andrews.ac.uk>
To: "Rockbox development" <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se>
Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 9:21 PM
Subject: Re: Emacs-like center scrolling?


> On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:13:26 +0100
> Pedro Vasconcelos <pbv_at_st-andrews.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> The
> > advange of this is that it 1) avoids line-by-line window scrolling and
> > 2) it allows you to see the context when moving through a long list. The
> > other advange is that the behavour is indepent of the font size (i.e.
> > window height).
>
> Just occured to me: another advantage would be a reduced update frequency
> of the LCD display when scrolling thought a long list (by a factor of
> window_height/2), thus probabily making the scrolling much more readable.
>
> Pedro
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