Re: Emacs text cursor position

[Cristian Gutierrez <crgutier@dcc.uchile.cl>]

Este domingo, ummajera@yahoo.ca dijo:
> I'm trying to customize Emacs to my needs/wants and so far so good.
> The only snag I encountered is in the position of the cursor. I want
> to be able to to scroll the  buffer with mouse wheel or on the scroll
> bars and have the cursor remain on the original line, even if the
> cursor moves off-screen. Then when I start typing, emacs does C-l to
> center back on the cursor, if the cursor is off-screen.
>
> Is it possible to customize Emacs in this way? How can I set "mouse
> scroll" not to affect the position of the cursor?

Not exactly what you're asking (dunno about the mouse wheel), but I use
this hack to scroll text without getting the cursor off the center of
the screen:

,----
| ;; "smooth" scroll
| (defun guti-scroll-up (cuenta)
|   (interactive "p")
|   (move-to-window-line nil)
|   (scroll-up cuenta)
|   (forward-line cuenta)
|   )
| 
| (defun guti-scroll-down (cuenta)
|   (interactive "p")
|   (move-to-window-line nil)
|   (scroll-down cuenta)
|   (forward-line (* -1 cuenta))
|   )
| 
| (global-set-key (kbd "C-<") 'guti-scroll-down)
| (global-set-key (kbd "C->") 'guti-scroll-up)
`----

HTH,

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