[TxMt] Half Window View - Extra Space in Text Window

[thomas Aylott]

Howdy. I'd just like to revive this old feature request.

I have a much large monitor than ever before.
I also develop rubyonrails apps, so most of my files are rather short.

I want to keep the window the full height of the screen. But when I  
do that the code is all stuck to the top of the screen.
It's much easier to code when the code i'm editing is in the middle  
of the window, in the middle of the screen.

Any chance of adding an extra half page of scroll space to the top  
and bottom of the text pane?
Maybe it could be a preference for people who'd hate it.

Thanks, much much!

> oh yes. this would be lovely icing.
> not particularly necessary functionality, but the mac isn't about
> bare necessities.
> it's about making things lovely to use
>
> On Aug 24, 2005, at 11:46 PM, Ivan wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Half window view is like adding "virtual space" in text windows to
>> push the last line to the middle of the windows. It behaviors as if
>> you have added a couple of returns at the end of the document. I hate
>> to see all the lines in the viewing area pushed up everytime I hit
>> return or softwrap to the next line. With half window views, the  
>> lines
>> only get pushed up every half window instead of every line.
>>
>> I use this feature a lot in vim and TextWrangler. In vim, it can have
>> any number of virtual space (denoted by tildes), which I think it's
>> better implentation than TextWrangler, which allow you to choose
>> "none", "half", or "full" only. However, I will be happy with just  
>> one
>> option, half window view.
>>
>> Anyway, I just want to bounce the idea to other users.
>>
>> Ivan