[urlwolf]

typewriter mode comes from those full-screen writer editors… It’s handy on text editors too (like sublime).

It makes the editing line centered, so the eyes can rest on a more natural position.

[Stefan]

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Do you mean the behaviour reachable by F11 key?

EmEditor Home – EmEditor Help – Command Reference – View category
Full Screen command

Description
Toggles the full screen mode.

How to Run
Default Menu: View > Full Screen
All Commands: View > Full Screen
Toolbar:
Status Bar: None
Default Shortcut Key: F11

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[urlwolf]

No, it’s not about the screen, bars, etc…
It’s about how text scroll.
The insert point (cursor) is always at the center of the screen.

[Stefan]

 

That sounds like an automatically scrolling feature.

Isn’t that disturbing?

I think I have never seen this feature in EmEditor.

There are only this shortcuts

Alt+PageUp – move cursor at top of screen
CTRL+UP ARROW – Scrolls the document up by one line

Hmm, but from that we can create an script
to move line with cursor into horizontal mid of screen:

	

	////scroll line with cursor in horizontal mid screen

	yPosCurr = document.selection.GetActivePointY( eePosView );

	xPos = document.selection.GetActivePointX( eePosView );

	editor.ExecuteCommandByID(4292); //Moves the cursor to the top of the current window.

	yPosTop  = document.selection.GetActivePointY( eePosView );

	editor.ExecuteCommandByID(4293); //Moves the cursor to the bottom of the window

	yPosBot  = document.selection.GetActivePointY( eePosView );

	yPosMid  = parseInt(yPosTop +  ((yPosBot - yPosTop) / 2) );

	iDiff    = parseInt(  (yPosBot - yPosTop) / 2  );

	if(yPosCurr < yPosTop){	iDiff += (yPosTop - yPosCurr);}

	if(yPosCurr > yPosBot){	iDiff += (yPosCurr - yPosBot);}

	if(yPosCurr > yPosMid){

		for( i=1; i < iDiff; i++){

			// Scrolls the document down by one line.

			editor.ExecuteCommandByID(4171);

		}

	}else{

		for( i=1; i < iDiff; i++){

			// Scrolls the document up by one line

			editor.ExecuteCommandByID(4170);

		}

	}

	document.selection.SetActivePoint( eePosView, xPos, yPosCurr, false );

	

	

Hmm, that script is a nice feature. Could use this myself often.

But not what you are after, I understood.

I have added Ctrl+Alt+M to that script,
and now, whenever I had scrolled my cursor line
out of view, this will bring the line back to mid screen.
Nifty, thanks for idea :-D

Now I can leave the cursor in the current line and use the
scroll bar to go to another place in the document to spot
some information, then pressing Ctrl+Alt+M scrolls back to
the line with the cursor.

I wonder if this is not already implemented? I go RTFM again…

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