Text moving up and down when enter key is pressed

[Bruno Bord]

Feature of writeroom reported on launchpad news, by some Gabriel:

http://news.launchpad.net/general/pyroom-a-writeroom-clone-in-python

"Gabriel Feb 5th, 2008 at 2:19 am

The most important feature than none of the “Writeroom clones” have implemented is that in Writeroom, when the Enter key is pressed, the cursor always stays at eye-level and the text moves up."

Don't know how it's possible in PyGtk, but it could be worth trying.

[markino (marco-crosio)]

the proposed feature is very very interesting, but i think it could be
disabled on default, an actived on user choice...

2008/2/8, Bruno Bord <email address hidden>:
>
> Public bug reported:
>
> Feature of writeroom reported on launchpad news, by some Gabriel:
>
> http://news.launchpad.net/general/pyroom-a-writeroom-clone-in-python
>
> "Gabriel Feb 5th, 2008 at 2:19 am
>
> The most important feature than none of the "Writeroom clones" have
> implemented is that in Writeroom, when the Enter key is pressed, the
> cursor always stays at eye-level and the text moves up."
>
> Don't know how it's possible in PyGtk, but it could be worth trying.
>
> ** Affects: pyroom
> Importance: Wishlist
> Status: New
>
> ** Changed in: pyroom
> Importance: Undecided => Wishlist
>
> --
> Text moving up and down when enter key is pressed
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/190134
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> Team, which is the bug contact for PyRoom.
>

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[Bruno Bord (brunobord)]

Agreed.
We should try (as soon as we'll get better organised state which options the user can set/unset, and what are their default values)

[Nathan Haines (nhaines)]

Marking as "confirmed" per Bruno's comment.

[Adam Rooke (abelianr)]

As nice a feature this would be, I have no idea how to implement it using GTKSourceview. It would probably involve using the "scroll" function when enter is pressed. But then if the user hasn't already written a screenfull that would have no impact..

[Everett Guerny (everett)]

Here's an idea of an easy (I guess) way this could be implemented by someone who knows how: add the ability to change the geometry/positioning of the text area. For instance, if I cut the vertical size in half, leaving only the top half of the box, the cursor, by definition, will never go below the middle point in my screen. With the "Show Border" feature disabled (my personal preference), it would look as if the originally-requested feature has been fully implemented!

It seems ergonomically poor to me, to have to perpetually look at the bottom of the screen once a page worth of text has been entered.