Hold arrow up key, recentering occurs while scrolling up.
Note: Script goes to EOB because I only witness this for scroll ups, not scroll downs.
I witness this regularly when navigating C++ source code.
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In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.6 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.10.4) of 2013-05-23 on redacted Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.70101000
System Description: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client release 5.4 (Tikanga)
Important settings:
value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=none locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix default enable-multibyte-characters: t
Major mode: C++/l
Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t
mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t
auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t abbrev-mode: t
Recent input: M-x r e p o r t - e m a c <tab> <return>
Recent messages: For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
foo.cpp has auto save data; consider M-x recover-this-file Loading cc-langs...done