Re: [External] : Re: Allowing point to be outside the window?

[martin rudalics]

>> It's not what (say) Libreoffice does, though -- if you've marked some
>> text, scroll away with the scroll bar, and then hit DEL, it'll delete
>> the marked text...
>
> It's also how other text editors that implement this feature work; the
> text is killed and the window is scrolled to make the point visible
> again.
>
> So perhaps users of this feature would not be surprised if Emacs does
> the same thing.

A GUI Emacs does that already.  With emacs -Q do

(setq truncate-lines t)
(toggle-horizontal-scroll-bar t)
C-x 3

Now put the region on say "To create", use the mouse on the horizontal
scroll bar to drag that region completely out of view and type C-w.

martin