how to stop cursor from moving when scrolling?

how to stop cursor from moving when scrolling?

[Paminu]

When I scroll through some text in emacs the cursor follows. How do I make
the cursor stay where I put it??

Re: how to stop cursor from moving when scrolling?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 07.10.2005 um 01:00 schrieb Paminu:

> When I scroll through some text in emacs the cursor follows. How do I 
> make
> the cursor stay where I put it??
>

Create a new buffer, change to that, and do scroll-other-wondow.

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Re: how to stop cursor from moving when scrolling?

[Paminu]

Peter Dyballa wrote:

> 
> Am 07.10.2005 um 01:00 schrieb Paminu:
> 
>> When I scroll through some text in emacs the cursor follows. How do I
>> make
>> the cursor stay where I put it??
>>
> 
> Create a new buffer, change to that, and do scroll-other-wondow.


Is that the only way? Seems rather cumbersome.

Re: how to stop cursor from moving when scrolling?

[David Hansen]

On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 11:25:32 +0200 Paminu wrote:

> Peter Dyballa wrote:
>
>> Am 07.10.2005 um 01:00 schrieb Paminu:
>> 
>>> When I scroll through some text in emacs the cursor follows. How do I
>>> make
>>> the cursor stay where I put it??
>> 
>> Create a new buffer, change to that, and do scroll-other-wondow.
>
>
> Is that the only way? Seems rather cumbersome.

What about C-SPC (C-v M-v as much as you want) and C-x C-x?

David

Re: how to stop cursor from moving when scrolling?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 07.10.2005 um 11:25 schrieb Paminu:

> Is that the only way?

I don't know any other ... and I have made it easy since I usually 
always have a *Calendar* buffer open!

Did you already google for 'Emacs scroll point' or such?

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Re: how to stop cursor from moving when scrolling?

[Paminu]

David Hansen wrote:

> On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 11:25:32 +0200 Paminu wrote:
> 
>> Peter Dyballa wrote:
>>
>>> Am 07.10.2005 um 01:00 schrieb Paminu:
>>> 
>>>> When I scroll through some text in emacs the cursor follows. How do I
>>>> make
>>>> the cursor stay where I put it??
>>> 
>>> Create a new buffer, change to that, and do scroll-other-wondow.
>>
>>
>> Is that the only way? Seems rather cumbersome.
> 
> What about C-SPC (C-v M-v as much as you want) and C-x C-x?
> 
> David


When I do C-SPC and scroll all the text gets selected. Thats is because I
like to use C-SPC and the arrows to select a region that I afterward can
delete by pressing del.

Re: how to stop cursor from moving when scrolling?

[David Hansen]

On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 12:25:40 +0200 Paminu wrote:

> David Hansen wrote:
>
>>>> Am 07.10.2005 um 01:00 schrieb Paminu:
>>>> 
>>>>> When I scroll through some text in emacs the cursor
>>>>> follows. How do I make the cursor stay where I put it??
>>
>> What about C-SPC (C-v M-v as much as you want) and C-x C-x?
>
> When I do C-SPC and scroll all the text gets selected. Thats is because I
> like to use C-SPC and the arrows to select a region that I afterward can
> delete by pressing del.

I see, you use transient-mark-mode.  At least in CVS emacs you
can enable transient-mark-mode temporally (by hitting C-SPC
twice).  So i don't see any reason why to have it enabled.

Anyway, probably registers will help you (eg. C-x r SPC 1 RET,
scroll around and C-x r j 1 RET, more in the emacs manual).

David