Re: mouse scroll and caret position

[Jay I.]

thanks martin. seems to be exactly what i need. i give it a try
tomorrow.

jay

On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 10:17 +0200, martin rudalics wrote:
> > 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