Exactly, it's hard to miss what you haven't had! In emacs, I mostly navigate around by searching, or sometimes by outlining (hide all lines that aren't a defin

Exactly, it's hard to miss what you haven't had! In emacs, I mostly navigate around by searching, or sometimes by outlining (hide all lines that aren't a definition, move to definition, unhide). But I do remember before I became an emacs addict, and there was something very nice about having a physical sense of your file layout. If you have that sense, scrolling can an efficient way to navigate a file (well, up to a certain size, anyway). And I think there's something valuable in the almost subconscious feeling for the layout of the file you get as you scroll thru it. When I'm mostly in emacs, my sense of what a file "is" is much hazier, because I'm just warping from one place to another. (On the other hand, maybe the entire concept of a file as a linear progression is antiquated for source code...)