Not Centering

[magikworx]

Worse on a Mac than you think. It won't start centering until after you have a SCREEN FULL of text. Not just a half-screen like in Windows. Behaves differently as well. I have to fill your screen buffer and then manually place my cursor in the middle, and SOMETIMES it picks up what I'm doing and does the typewriter thing. Not as you have described in your last post. Close this if you want, but please be sure to mark this as not compatible with OSX.

[magikworx]

Also, it might be a hack, but you may try adjusting the line-height or adding height to your region that you're centering. You may have luck in tricking the buffer to think it's a different size. You could also do a trailing buffer region and trick it into working for OSX as well.

[alehandrof]

I've put up a short video that shows how the plugin works: https://db.tt/PkdXPqva

I shot the video in Linux, but you should be seeing the same behaviour regardless of the OS. I've had confirmation that this plugin works in OSX, but I don't have access to one myself, so bear with me.

Let's eliminate the obvious, first:

• What build of Sublime are you using?
• Is the Typewriter package enabled?
• Are you using any other packages that provide typewriter scrolling? (BufferScroll and MarkdownEditing are two, there may be others.)
• Have you enabled typewriter scrolling via the palette (as I do in the video) or via a setting?

[adzenith]

Try:

    "scroll_past_end": true,

It's on by default on Win/Lin, but not Mac.

[alehandrof]

This sounds plausible. But I tried setting scroll_past_end to false on Linux (which is what I'm on at the moment) and I can't replicate @MagicMan86's issue. It would be great if an OSX user could verify whether this setting is causing the issue.

[adzenith]

Right, I'm on OS X and it works for me with scroll_past_end.

[alehandrof]

Right, I'm on OS X and it works for me with scroll_past_end.

Cool. Thanks for taking the time to help out.

I don't mean to belabor the point but are you saying that it works with
scroll_past_end set true and doesn't when it is set to false?

[facelessuser]

I imagine he means it scrolls better. By enabling scroll_past_end you extend your scrollable region. Typewriter will always be limited by scrollable region. For instance, you cannot center until a line extends past center of the viewable region. If sublime allowed scrolling past the beginning and end you would then be able to center any line, but that is not currently possible.

[alehandrof]

This is one of those times when I'm an total idiot :)

I tried turning off scroll_past_end earlier, but for some reason I put quotation marks around false and Sublime politely ignored it. So I had not idea what you guys were talking about. I just noticed the typo, removed the quotation mark and yeah, I now understand what the issue is :)

I'll add a note to the README and potentially make the Scrolling mode enable scroll_past_end for good measure.

[adzenith]

Yeah, sorry I didn't actually mention I was on OS X! I came here through your forum link and honestly just forgot that that was the important part :P

For what it's worth, I didn't see any issues that looked like what magicman was mentioning.

[fgimian]

This thread helped me too (I'm also on OS X) and now the plugin is working, yay! 😄

Is there any way to make it center from the very top of the document (similar to certain Markdown editors) or is this simply not possible due to Sublime plugin API limitations .etc?

[alehandrof]

@fgimian Not that I know of.

Also, I'm closing this issue, as it was resolved by 7405af4.