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From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: how to move the contents of the buffer one line up/down?
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:51:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lk041y6y.fsf@hubble.informatimago.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6e0qu9F4kpduU2@mid.individual.net

Tamas K Papp <tkpapp@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I know that I can "center" my cursor with C-l.  But sometimes it would be 
> really useful to do the following: have the contents of the buffer move 
> up or down a couple of lines, with the cursor staying in the same place.
>
> What function would do that?  Then I could bind it to a key.

scroll-up and scroll-down

C-u 3 M-x scroll-up RET

C-u 6 M-x scroll-down RET

Also, since they're often bound to <next> and <prior> you can just type:

C-3 <prior>  or C-6 <next>


-- 
__Pascal Bourguignon__                     http://www.informatimago.com/

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-14 11:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-14 11:17 how to move the contents of the buffer one line up/down? Tamas K Papp
2008-07-14 11:49 ` Peter Dyballa
2008-07-14 11:51 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon [this message]
2008-07-14 11:55   ` Tamas K Papp
2008-07-14 12:49     ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2008-07-14 20:14       ` Xah
2008-07-14 12:11 ` B. T. Raven
2008-07-14 13:16 ` Alan Mackenzie
     [not found] ` <mailman.14699.1216039847.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-07-14 20:27   ` Xah

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