Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions

[martin rudalics]

>> It could also be used to let the user go back to where she was before
>> scrolling (to simulate those other editors where point is not moved to
>> stay visible while scrolling, so that non-scrolling commands teleport
>> you right back to where you were).
>
> Ah. That's an interesting variation. Controlled by (setq scroll-in-place
> 'unmoving) perhaps? (It should probably hide the cursor while it's
> conceptually offscreen as well, on terminals where that's possible, by
> flipping cursor-type to nil. Alas this would make it vanish from
> non-selected windows too, if cursor-in-non-selected-windows is t...)

`scroll-restore-mode' addresses most of these

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

and also tries to handle the region during scrolling.

martin