Cursor at center of window

Cursor at center of window

[Mauricio]

Hi,

Is it possible to ask emacs to
keep the cursor at the center
of the window? For instance, when
I press C-n, the text would go
one line up, instead of the cursor
going one line down.

Thanks,
Maurício

Re: Cursor at center of window

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Mauricio <briqueabraque@yahoo.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to ask emacs to
> keep the cursor at the center
> of the window? For instance, when
> I press C-n, the text would go
> one line up, instead of the cursor
> going one line down.

C-l

So you can type: C-n C-l
or if you want, you can rebind C-n to a command doing both.

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Re: Cursor at center of window

[Mauricio]

>> Hi,
>>
>> Is it possible to ask emacs to
>> keep the cursor at the center
>> of the window? For instance, when
>> I press C-n, the text would go
>> one line up, instead of the cursor
>> going one line down.
> 
> C-l
> 
> So you can type: C-n C-l
> or if you want, you can rebind C-n to a command doing both.
> 

But then I would have to rebind
all moving commands. Is there some
way to "repel" the cursor from the
borders? Or maybe some after moving
hook where I could call C-l?

Maurício

Re: Cursor at center of window

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Mauricio wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Is it possible to ask emacs to
>>> keep the cursor at the center
>>> of the window? For instance, when
>>> I press C-n, the text would go
>>> one line up, instead of the cursor
>>> going one line down.
>>
>> C-l
>>
>> So you can type: C-n C-l
>> or if you want, you can rebind C-n to a command doing both.
>>
> 
> But then I would have to rebind
> all moving commands. Is there some
> way to "repel" the cursor from the
> borders? Or maybe some after moving
> hook where I could call C-l?


Take a look at

  (info "(emacs) Auto Scrolling")

especially the variable `scroll-margin'.

Re: Cursor at center of window

[Mauricio]

>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Is it possible to ask emacs to
>>>> keep the cursor at the center
>>>> of the window? (...)
> Take a look at
> 
>   (info "(emacs) Auto Scrolling")
> 
> especially the variable `scroll-margin'.
> 

Thanks. scroll-conservatively, scroll-margin
and scroll-preserve-screen-position did
exactly what I wanted.

Best,
Maurício