Re: how to move the contents of the buffer one line up/down?

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Tamas K Papp <tkpapp@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I know that I can "center" my cursor with C-l.  But sometimes it would be 
> really useful to do the following: have the contents of the buffer move 
> up or down a couple of lines, with the cursor staying in the same place.
>
> What function would do that?  Then I could bind it to a key.

scroll-up and scroll-down

C-u 3 M-x scroll-up RET

C-u 6 M-x scroll-down RET

Also, since they're often bound to <next> and <prior> you can just type:

C-3 <prior>  or C-6 <next>


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