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If you are thinking of a mouse oriented text editing gui where one scrolls with the scroll wheel and then clicks somewhere and starts typing from there this might make perfect sense. In fact you can of course use Emacs like that if you prefer but for keyboard oriented operation it would be absolutely odd if operations that moved the view didn't also move point and in fact other functionality depends on this. Presumably making visual point from internal point different would complexity and work and I have no idea to what end this work would be.

It would be equally weird if scrolling with a mouse wheel worked differently than scrolling with page down for example. In fact in many applications I now realize it does work differently. It's likely that I and many others are not likely to notice because when we do scroll with the scroll wheel in an editable field or document we immediately follow a series of scroll operations with a click in the appropriate location where we intend to insert text. That is to say people are unlikely to exploit the fact that visual point and point are different as a deliberate feature because its awkward. It's spacebar heating.

https://xkcd.com/1172/

I would also venture to guess people are vastly more likely to scroll documents in emacs via keys compared to the scroll wheel in part because mouse scrolling emacs isn't awesome. That is a better thing to improve.




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