Re: .emacs to keep cursor stationary when scrolling with mouse

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

JohnF writes:

> I'm pretty clueless about emacs lisp, and have tried to set up 
> an .emacs that emulates dumb editor behavior. That works mostly 
> the way I want, except that when running under X and scrolling 
> text with mouse (both scrolling with mouse wheel and dragging 
> the text bar on the window's right-hand side), the cursor still 
> jumps around.  It remains stationary when scrolling with 
> keyboard arrow-up/down and keyboard page-up/down, which is what 
> I want. But I can't get the cursor to remain stationary when 
> scrolling with the mouse.  How's that done??

I think that what you want is to not see the point (you call it 
cursor) in your screen and to keep the point always fixed. I know 
that is standard "modern" editor behavior, but why would you want 
that? In those editors when you scroll, the point remains where it 
was and when you type you miss what you were seeing because the 
screen goes back to where it was before you scrolled. If you want 
to edit the buffer in a different place that is irritating. Now if 
what you want is to browse the buffer in a different place you can 
do way better: split the window (C-x 2 or C-x 3) and scroll on the 
other one. Or if you do not want to split the window then push the 
mark (C-<space> C-<space>) browse what you want and then jump the 
mark (C-u C-<space>) that will get you to where you were before.

This also goes hand in hand with using the mark and the region, 
which is an integral part of emacs. Moving the point with the 
scroll is what you would expect if you are selecting a region.

Best,
--
Jorge.