Re: How do you scroll the screen without moving the cursor ? (the C-E and C-Y keys in vi)

[Rodolfo Medina]

Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> writes:

> ...how do you scroll the screen without moving point, also in the sense that
> you do, say, five times C-v and then five times M-v and find the cursor in the
> *same* place as it was before the first C-v...?
>
> I found two packages that do that: pager.el and scroll-in-place.el, but the
> side unwished effect is that the `next-screen-context-lines' stops working
> properly in TeX and info buffers: you don't have any more the two default
> lines of continuity when scrolling by screenfuls, but less, and variable.
>
> Anyone met the same problem?



Rupert Swarbrick <rswarbrick@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm afraid I don't actually know the answer to this question (although
> I'm sure there will be one). I was also slightly suprised when reading
> it that this had never irritated me.
>
> But then I realised what I do: Before starting to scroll, I hit C-Space
> to set a mark. Then I wander round the file to my hearts content, not
> even necessarily returning to where I started before hitting C-u C-Space
> and being back and with point "unmoved".
>
> Maybe this is a useful different way of solving your problem.



Hey, that's great!  Thanks
Rodolfo