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Re:Learn Elisp the Hard Way (2011) by emacs28 on Monday January 31, 2022 @12:00PM (#30150286)
Creating my own non-trivial minor mode was what really got me to start understanding Elisp and Emacs as a whole more under the hood.
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Re:Learn Elisp the Hard Way (2011) by scruple on Monday January 31, 2022 @12:10PM (#30150471)
What was the minor mode that you created?
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Re:Learn Elisp the Hard Way (2011) by emacs28 on Monday January 31, 2022 @12:16PM (#30150590)
vertical-center-mode: https://github.com/trevorpogue/vertical-center-mode

It let's you "scroll above the top line" so that the top text in a file can be centered in the screen.

I still need to clean it up and submit to MELPA

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Re:Learn Elisp the Hard Way (2011) by scruple on Monday January 31, 2022 @12:28PM (#30150791)
I've been looking for ideas for my own minor mode for the same purpose. Thanks for sharing!
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