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Tag: scrolling

Simple Flexible Scrolling

Posted:   |   Categories: emacs, linux   |   Tags: elisp, emacs, scrolling, 2023

I have written before about smooth scrolling using good-scroll and how I managed to find a semi satisfactory way of centering my cursor after a single scroll which meant I would then have a minimal amount of subsequent line movement to get to the line I want. However, I have since returned to a simple concept, more of a basic scroll-[up/down]-command which in its bare form scrolls a whole page. Read more...

Centering the Cursor After a Scroll

Posted:   |   Categories: emacs, linux   |   Tags: elisp, emacs, scrolling, 2022

Something has been nagging at me for a while now, I seem to spend a lot of time moving the cursor to the next or previous line within a window, spamming C-n and C-p to get where I want to within a file. Why is this? Well I am scrolling quite often using C-v and M-v and this has a side effect on the cursor by pushing it to the top or bottom of the window. Read more...