[TxMt] Re: cursor doesn't follow page up / down

[Patrick Cullen]

Thanks, that did the trick.  Would it be possible to append this information
to the url I referred to in my first email:

http://blog.macromates.com/2005/key-bindings-for-switchers/

It looks like the post is closed for comments ... otherwise I would add a
link from there to this answer in the mailing list archive.   Maybe help
keep other users from pulling there hair out ...

***Digression warning***

This has probably been beaten to death, but I will ask anyway ... The
default Mac paging behavior is really hard for me to get used to.  It seems
to me that the primary use case when you scroll to a new location in an
editable document is to "start editing", so it would be logical for the
cursor to follow along.  Is there some UI interaction pattern / use case
that I don't understand?  What reason could there be for leaving the cursor
behind?  And even if there is some scenario where it makes sense, is it more
common than scrolling to a new location to start editing?

-P


On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 4:01 AM, Allan Odgaard <mailinglist at textmate.org>wrote:

> On 30 Jan 2011, at 01:30, Patrick Cullen wrote:
>
> > Hello.  I would like the cursor to follow me when I hit page up and down.
>  I
> > don't want to remember to hit the ctrl key.  I have followed these
> > instructions:
> >
> > http://blog.macromates.com/2005/key-bindings-for-switchers/
> >
> > But they don't seem to work for Textmate.   Other apps (XCode, Textedit
> ...)
> > behave as expected with the Keybinding set (the cursor nicely follows as
> the
> > page scrolls), but with Textmate the cursor jumps around unpredictably,
> > sometimes in the wrong direction.  Anybody know whats up?
>
> Do you have smooth scroll enabled in System Preferences → Appearance?
>
> If so, disable it at least for TextMate by quit’ing it and running this in
> Terminal:
>
>    defaults write com.macromates.textmate AppleScrollAnimationEnabled -bool
> NO
>
> There is a problem with the heuristic Apple uses for this smooth scroll
> where the target rectangle TextMate asks AppKit to scroll to is “augmented”,
> leading to this seemingly random behavior.
>
>
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