[Lazarus] editor: Horizontal scrollbar position after pressing ENTER

Martin Frb lazarus at mfriebe.de
Thu Sep 8 20:00:21 CEST 2016


On 06/09/2016 12:19, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> When I have a long line
> of code that causes horizontal scrolling and I press ENTER to start a
> new line, the cursor moves to the correct indentation level, but the
> editor view is still scrolled a few spaces off the screen
....
> What I would like to see after pressing ENTER is that the editor scrolls
> back to column 0
....
> Is there a editor setting that alters the behaviour of (1) somewhere? I
> had a look through the various editor settings, but can't see anything
> obvious.
>
unfortunately not.

you could try to re-assign the enter key to an editor macro, and in the 
macro perform the line-break, and then try and find a way to scroll to zero.

begin
ecLineBreak;
ecScrollLeft;
ecScrollLeft;
ecScrollLeft;
ecScrollLeft;  // as many as you may need
end.


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