Re: scroll-conservatively default

[Andreas Schwab]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> Being able to make the material one needs to view as a unit appear on
> the screen painlessly is one of the most important and frequent
> operations for a screen editor.
>
> Emacs' keybindings in connection with the scrolling behavior don't help
> (vi has extra keybindings C-e and C-y for scrolling without moving
> point).

I have this since ages:

(defun scroll-up-in-place (n)
  (interactive "p")
  (scroll-up n))

(defun scroll-down-in-place (n)
  (interactive "p")
  (scroll-down n))

(define-key global-map [(shift next)] 'scroll-up-in-place)
(define-key global-map [(shift prior)] 'scroll-down-in-place)

Andreas.

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