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atomfullerene

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Faster Z scroll
« on: April 01, 2010, 08:54:42 pm »

with the addition of more z=levels, it would be very handy to have a way to scroll, say, 10 at a time.  Something like pg up and pg down for menus.  My apologies if this is possible, but I looked in the key bindings and couldn't find anything.
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immibis

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Re: Faster Z scroll
« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2010, 09:12:49 pm »

You could make a macro to do this (once 40d# gets merged) but currently I don't see a way either. It would be a good thing to have.
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Silverionmox

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Re: Faster Z scroll
« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2010, 06:20:44 am »

Given that there are 100+ levels, pressing a key and then the level number would be fast and precise.
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Re: Faster Z scroll
« Reply #3 on: April 03, 2010, 08:08:12 am »

Given that there are 100+ levels, pressing a key and then the level number would be fast and precise.

I agree. Not to engage a long-standing war, here, but there's a lot that could be learned from vim's motion system, for example.
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atomfullerene

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Re: Faster Z scroll
« Reply #4 on: April 03, 2010, 08:57:02 am »

So I've found a clumsy temporary way to do this...hit "a" and then zoom to an announcement from the relevant area, or hit 'u' and zoom to a dwarf in the relevant area.  still faster than scrolling from top to bottom
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ArPharazon

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Re: Faster Z scroll
« Reply #5 on: April 03, 2010, 11:29:38 am »

Or you can set hotkeys.

I don't see why shift+ctrl+5 or shift+5 can't scroll 10 z-levels.
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