From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Wright Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: scroll without moving the point Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 17:06:16 +0200 Message-ID: References: <42494147_1@x-privat.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1112110808 6870 80.91.229.2 (29 Mar 2005 15:40:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 15:40:08 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 29 17:40:06 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DGIo1-0005iR-1K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 17:39:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DGJ4K-0007hR-Oa for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:55:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DGJ48-0007go-Ku for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:55:40 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DGJ46-0007fQ-38 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:55:40 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DGIu8-0005gB-Js for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:45:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1DGIJf-00005S-GJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:07:39 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DGII1-0000W8-1d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 17:05:57 +0200 Original-Received: from pd9ed4a1f.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([217.237.74.31]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 17:05:57 +0200 Original-Received: from daniel.d.wright by pd9ed4a1f.dip0.t-ipconnect.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 17:05:57 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd9ed4a1f.dip0.t-ipconnect.de User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-1.3.2 (X11/20050324) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <42494147_1@x-privat.org> 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:25267 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:25267 Olive wrote: > Hello, > > Is there a way to configure emacs in order that when I scroll (usually > with the mouse wheel), the point (the cursor position) stay at the same > position in the buffer, even if this point is not in the visible part > anymore? this could be usefull to see a matching parenthesis or the > beginning of a region, etc... > > Olive Hi Olive, You should find this thread interesting: "Emacs text cursor position" from 23/01/2005, in which a very similar question was asked. Although, unfortunately, no (ready-to-use) solution was provided. Daniel