topspace VS simple-console-editor

topspace.el enables scrolling 1st line to e.g. center of screen https://github.com/trevorpogue/topspace

The most polished and useful program I've made for personal use is an emacs minor mode that lets you scroll down top lines in a file. I was tired of having to always look all the way at the top of the editor window to read the top lines of a file or small files.

https://github.com/trevorpogue/topspace

I also made a Python tree data structure library to easily parse and read tree structures which I actively use in other personal projects.

https://github.com/trevorpogue/sections

Indeed it is a nice feature! It's useful not only with large monitors, but also when one needs to visually compare two snippets that appear in two files at different offsets close to the beginning / end.

Although I haven't seen it implemented before -- granted I don't often investigate text editors -- some editors / pagers (`vim`, `less`, Sublime?, etc.) support keeping a number of lines always visible between the cursor and the top / bottom of the view; some also support keeping the cursor always centered vertically. But as said, none of them seem to support scrolling past the beginning of the file.

BTW, I've just "stolen" your idea and implemented in my own Python-based editor (<https://github.com/volution/simple-console-editor>).

Thanks! :)