`scroll-preserve-screen-position' does not work

`scroll-preserve-screen-position' does not work

[Rodolfo Medina]

Hi all.

In Emacs 22, the `scroll-preserve-screen-position' variable used to work fine:
in my ~/.emacs I have it set to `t':

   (setq scroll-preserve-screen-position t)

Now, in Emacs cvs 23.0.91.1 it does not seem to work any more.  Why, and how to
work it out?

Thanks for any help
Rodolfo

Re: `scroll-preserve-screen-position' does not work

[Tassilo Horn]

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

Hi Rodolfo,

> In Emacs 22, the `scroll-preserve-screen-position' variable used to
> work fine: in my ~/.emacs I have it set to `t':
>
>    (setq scroll-preserve-screen-position t)
>
> Now, in Emacs cvs 23.0.91.1 it does not seem to work any more.

It does work for me using GNU Emacs 23.1.92.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+
Version 2.18.6) of 2010-02-07 on thinkpad.

> Why, and how to work it out?

Don't know.  What exactly does not work?

Bye,
Tassilo

Re: `scroll-preserve-screen-position' does not work

[Rodolfo Medina]

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

>> [...] in my ~/.emacs I have it set to `t':
>>
>>    (setq scroll-preserve-screen-position t)
>>
>> Now, in Emacs cvs 23.0.91.1 it does not seem to work any more.


Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:

> It does work for me using GNU Emacs 23.1.92.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+
> Version 2.18.6) of 2010-02-07 on thinkpad.


I found out that it works also for me _if_ I use the following font:

 -sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--16-120-100-100-c-80-iso8859-1,

so the problem must have something to do with the Emacs font:
`scroll-preserve-screen-position' does not work with the default Emacs font,
but why?  I could use the above family font as well, if only I knew how to
enlarge it, on the screen of my new small Acer netbook!

Thanks for any furhter help
Rodolfo