[patch] CenterView action

[psprint]

Hi,
the patch adds CenterView? action to MCEdit which positions the display making the current line at center. It doesn't move cursor. See also this ​discussion.

[psprint]

I think that ticket system is more appropriate place for this question:

I would like to further extend the action in a way described on the list. However I see that the timer support that I've noticed (mc_timer_t) has been removed recently. Can I ask why?

[psprint]

It turns out that mc_timer_t wasn't a timer, i.e.: it wasn't a timeout callback mechanism. Is there something like this in the source base? A mechanism, that would allow to:

– register a callback function to be invoked after specified pause,
– the callback should be invoked in the main thread, in idle time.

[ossi]

for all i know, there isn't, and given the current architecture, it would be Hard (TM) to add it. but there is a long-standing todo item to migrate mc to the glib main loop, which would make glib timers available as well (obviously).

[andrew_b]

About patch. You want to read the HACKING again, don't you? I'm really tied talk to you about simple things.

Replying to psprint:

It turns out that mc_timer_t wasn't a timer,

What timer you're talking about?

[psprint]

Sorry about the style. I've had a correct patch prepared, however after I updated my script to automatically append .patch extension I didn't update the name and missed the new file.

I've left the commenting style as it is in other functions in edit.c.

[smartmic]

As written in the mc gnome mailing list, I made an enhancement to the line centering functionality:

There is major difference in my patch however — and this is important for
my personal text editing experience: I mostly feel the need to center
the current line when I am already at the bottom of the buffer, eg.
editing long text or code and the cursor line is both on the bottom of
the window and the buffer. Therefore I made a hack to redraw the window
when I am in the bottom half of both window and buffer.

The attached patch 0001-My-squashed-CenterLine-commits.patch is related to this ticket.

— Martin

[psprint]

The v3 patch:

• uses alt-c instead of ctrl-alt-c for the action, as the ctrl-alt-c shortcut is better used by WindowCascade action (together with WindowTile action ↔ ctrl-alt-t),
• fixes mc.default.keymap – the binding was added in wrong section ([panel] instead of [editor]).

Replying to andrew_b:: I was talking about mc_timer_t judging from the name that it's a callback after timeout invocation mechanism, but I now see that it was just a timestamp obtaining utility.

[psprint]

alt-c instead of ctrl-alt-c