Re: Display of text in columns?

[Nikos Apostolakis]

Nikos Apostolakis <absent@sdf.lonestar.org> writes:

> I don't know if the OP will be satisfied with follow-mode but often
> (eg when reading Gutenberg ebooks) I would like to have a
> follow-like mode that treats the text as a book.  With follow-mode
> if you have a file that consists of four "pages", say A,B,C,D and
> you start with the configuration
>
>           |-----|-----|
>           |     |     |
>           |  A  |  B  |
>           |     |     |
>           |-----|-----|
>
> if you hit "C-v" you get 
>
>           |-----|-----|
>           |     |     |
>           |  B  |  C  |
>           |     |     |
>           |-----|-----|
>
> I would like to get 
>
>           |-----|-----|
>           |     |     |
>           |  C  |  D  |
>           |     |     |
>           |-----|-----|
>
> instead.  Does such a mode exist?
>

Answering myself, all I need to do is to (localy) bind "C-v" to 
"C-vC-v" and "M-v" to "M-vM-v" (perhaps in a trivially modified 
derived mode). 

Sometimes one has to ask the question in order to realize that they
know the answer or (as is the case here) that the solution is trivial.

Nikos