> what can I do about it? Can I somehow make the point be independent of the > shown part of the buffer?
Not really, tho in theory everything's possible. First you need to figure out whether you want to make point independent from the displayed part of the buffer, or if you want to make point independent from the region. Then you need to come up with a way to try and implement that. The second option can be done by redefining region-beginning and region-end, and then go through a lot of code to change it so it uses region-beginning/region-end instead of point/mark. It's probably a lot of work, but it should be fairly straightforward and you should be able to get most of it accepted in the official Emacs (replacing point/mark with region-beginning/region-end is normally harmless so it shouldn't be too hard to get it accepted). The first option is probably a bit more tricky, but maybe you can try and get it working by adding some code to pre-command-hook that moves point to the "display-independent position" and then a post-command-hook which moves it back to the "displayed position". This way you might be able to decouple point from the displayed part of the buffer. Stefan _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs