TopSpace: Scroll down & recenter top lines in Emacs / get upper margins/padding.

[removed]

Okay cool, but how?

The "upper margin" is created by drawing an [overlay](https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Overlays.html) before window-start containing newline characters. As you scroll above the top line, more newline characters are added or removed accordingly.

Sick, can you post a snippet ? Been wanting a way to center slide content

What would you like to see? I would say the main idea is captured in the GIF here. And in terms of usage, no new keybindings are required, you just keep using all your previous scrolling & recentering commands, except now you can also scroll above the top lines.

Here's the repo link: https://github.com/trevorpogue/topspace

Any risk of the pre- post- overlay newline text getting into saves, implicit backups, clipboards, etc? or are the overlays completely ignored by everything?

Nope no risk of that! The overlays alter the buffer appearance but are never a part of the underlying file

I used to manually append newline characters to the beginning of files to get this effect before I had the expertise to make this mode properly, but no need for than anymore :)

I see you posted the repo link now. Thanks

Yeah I had previous comment with the link right off the bat, but then I noticed it didn't seem to be visible to other people for some reason

Wow! Adding upper margin to buffers was in my todo list for a long time, thanks for doing that for us!

Theme? Lol