From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rodolfo Medina Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How do you scroll the screen without moving the cursor ? (the C-E and C-Y keys in vi) Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:48:00 +0100 Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source Message-ID: <871vyv5ndr.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87prmgvzen.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1223203284 7464 80.91.229.12 (5 Oct 2008 10:41:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 10:41:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 05 12:42:22 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KmR4A-0006TA-1b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Oct 2008 12:42:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48161 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KmR36-0006aW-NH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Oct 2008 06:41:16 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!news.net.uni-c.dk!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:nJima/8dLI5JFI3GUPm6itlNAQ4= Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.80.148.215 Original-X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=m?IY4G_WIP@h6dZj2aj97OYSB=nbEKnkKjL0kO3l6odN:AocXk=\=_DT7bXfBO; G:EKAib\KDO`hBm=c5DAkLCDL\A^?`4\:=XL2oC1m3=UAjL Original-X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:163034 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:58374 Archived-At: Rodolfo Medina 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 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