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deadpixi / tine

tine - a modern clone of the AmigaDOS/TRIPOS ED display editor
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Pressing Enter on first line does not scroll downward #6

Closed drj11 closed 1 year ago

drj11 commented 1 year ago

If this is true to AmigaDOS then that's fine, but it's still surprising enough that a note about screen update and scrolling would be welcome.

In a sufficiently large file, the output of man ls | sed 99q say, pressing Enter when the cursor is at the beginning of the file apparently has no effect. In fact the file changes correctly, but the fresh empty line has been scrolled out of the way above the cursor.

The first time i noticed the scrolling behaviour of Enter (which i think is: either scroll the lines after the cursor down, or scroll the lines after the cursor up, whichever is the fewer lines) i thought it was unsettling, but then i quite liked it.

But now i've discovered this "entering a blank line at the top of file" i'm unsettled again.

deadpixi commented 1 year ago

Yep. This mimics ED’s behavior. The 80’s were a different time.

drj11 commented 1 year ago

can we have a note about screen updating / scrolling then? and by "have" i mean "have an understanding that this is desirable and will be produced as and when time and effort permits".