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Emacs lacks a command to horizontally recenter

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 30747 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Subject: bug#30747: Emacs lacks a command to horizontally recenter
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2021 13:58:03 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> So when one goes one line up or down, one would need to recenter?

If you want to recenter, then you recenter.

>>                                                        But horizontal
>> centring is mostly useful when you have a display that's much wider than
>> your window width, which can happen i deeply nested threads in Gnus, for
>> instance.
>
> Doesn't auto-hscroll-mode = current-line take care of that?

If somebody wants to do that, then that's up to them, but this is about
a command that'll recenter the display horizontally.  And that setting
doesn't help with that.

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