Single line scrolling... Is it possible?

[maniac1181]

Hi!

I've done a quick search and didn't find the answer so I'm hoping it's because I'm stupid and it's actually an easy thing to do.

I've just bought a book to learn a programming language and sometimes the formatting on the kindle means that a line of code will get split on two pages! When that happens, is there a way to simply scroll down a line? Without turning the page?

I really do hope it is!

[tomsem]

Use Go To Location. Tap menu key to display the current location. A page will typically have between 5-12 locations, depending on text size. Add 2 or so to the current location # in the Go To dialog and that will scroll the text up, most likely enough to bring the whole line onto the same page.

[ryugen]

I also have programming books for my kindle 3g, not to mention books with tables that get cut off. I would like to see someone program a script for this, but basically to scroll down I've found that you can change your location by 3-4 or so to get to where you want. If someone can bind this to a key that would be FANTASTIC! It would just need to find the current location, and then add or subtract a few to that number, and then finally go to this new location to go up and down lines. If no one will I might have to see if I can do it, but I have no Kindle hacking experience as of now.

[ryugen]

Oops, I posted a minute after you.

[tomsem]

Originally Posted by ryugen

I also have programming books for my kindle 3g, not to mention books with tables that get cut off. I would like to see someone program a script for this, but basically to scroll down I've found that you can change your location by 3-4 or so to get to where you want. If someone can bind this to a key that would be FANTASTIC! It would just need to find the current location, and then add or subtract a few to that number, and then finally go to this new location to go up and down lines. If no one will I might have to see if I can do it, but I have no Kindle hacking experience as of now.

The Kindle keyboard is indeed underutilized. I want hot keys not just to scroll up/down but to (as another example) navigate directly to pages with bookmarks, highlights, notes, hyperlinks, and then navigate directly to highlights/notes/hyperlinks. Sadly this will never happen, and while touch screens and multitouch 'gestures' are a nice try, they can't approach the efficiency and mind melding possibilities of hotkeys.

[maniac1181]

Originally Posted by tomsem

Use Go To Location. Tap menu key to display the current location. A page will typically have between 5-12 locations, depending on text size. Add 2 or so to the current location # in the Go To dialog and that will scroll the text up, most likely enough to bring the whole line onto the same page.

Thanks for the answers Tomsem and Ryugen, that does the trick! I agree the keyboard could be put to much better use...! Hope they add that in a further software version!