Re: Scrolling to bottom of TextView?

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Jan 10, 2005, at 2:08 PM, Martin Junius wrote:

> This uses an otherwise superfluous mark for the scrolling.
> Is this the canonical way or is there an easier way to achieve this 
> (without the mark)?

when i've done this in the past, i've used a named mark with right 
gravity, so that it's always at the end.  no need to keep recreating 
it.

aristotle's idea may be better.


you could do something like this, even:

on the buffer's 'changed' or 'inserted' or whatever signal fires when 
text is inserted, install an idle that will scroll to the bottom; if 
the idle is already installed, do nothing.
then, just insert text normally.
the idea is that it will scroll lazily, hopefully reducing load and the 
potential for not scrolling far enough.

no idea if that will actually work, just brainstorming.

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