Re: mouse scroll and caret position

[martin rudalics]

> hi, guys. how can i preserve caret position when scrolling the window? i
> got used to the following technique - when i have to shoot a glance at a
> piece of code in the same file but a couple of pages above/under my
> current position i scroll the window with mouse wheel or scrollbar then
> look at the code and hit either an arrow key or just start entering new
> code based on what i've seen and my ide/editor brings my current
> position into view automatically. when i do it in emacs if i scroll the
> window too much the caret changes its position to stay on the screen.

Have a look at

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg01892.html

martin