--- Meino Christian Cramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to accomplish three "tricks":
>
> 1.) Suppose you have a source code and have started an new search
> task recently. With "n" you are jumping from match to
> match. Sometimes the "next match" is right on the last line
> currently visible. Pressing "n" let the cursor jump there. The
> screen is not scrolled, cause the target is still on the screen --
> but the context is not.
>
> Is it possible to always scroll the screen that way, that pressing
> "n" wll always take you to the middle of the screen (or in other
> words: The cursor is glued to the middle of the screen and the text
> jumps "under" the cursor)?
>
> 2.) This is similiar: I want to scroll through text and keep the
> cursor glued to a certain position on the screen.
>
> 3.) Last "glued cursor" thingy: I want to glue the cursor on the text
> and using "up" and "down" will not move the cursor on the text but
> the text on the screen.
>
Sounds like you want to use the 'scrolloff' option. Try ':help scrolloff',
it's pretty straightforward. Personally I find 'set scrolloff=4' makes
everything much easier to read.
cheers,
Peter
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