While I think the typewriter scrolling feature is quite nice when typing, when editing text that’s already been written it’s kinda annoying having the cursor always revert back to it’s central position on the screen.
I’m figuring this is probably hard to program but as it’s a wish list I’ll just say it as an idea: A feature that allows typewriter scrolling when adding new lines, but reverts back to regular scrolling when trying to edit the same document.
I know that I could easily just press the shortcut but it would interesting if it were automatic.
I can’t really see how Scrivener would automatically know whether you were “editing” a document or “adding new text” unless you mean that it should just always assume that anything at the bottom of the document is new, and therefore should use typewriter scrolling, and anything else would not. That would still be annoyingly presumptive, though. I know users who dump notes or cut sections of the document at the end of the doc and then write above that and would expect typewriter scrolling to work. I sometimes go back and add a paragraph or two in the middle of an existing scene and want it to stick to my TW scroll line.
Given that you can toggle the behaviour with a shortcut (which you can customise to anything you want), there doesn’t seem to be significant benefit to Scrivener doing this for you with its best guess, which isn’t always going to be what you want anyway.
The second you write “above that” or start cutting and pasting, typewriter scrolling just becomes really annoying at it positions your vision where you don’t actually want to be for the moment…it’s a bit difficult to describe in words I guess…