On 01/13/12 14:27, Ven Tadipatri wrote:
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Tim Chase<[email protected]> wrote:
:help 'scrolloff'
Does scrolloff work with only jumping forward (ctrl + f) or does it also work
with jumping back? (ctrl+b)
It works with all jumps (searching forwards/backwards, ^F, ^B,
^D, ^U, *, #, etc), aiming merely to keep 'scrolloff' lines of
context above and below the cursor.
And actually I think it's ok having the scrolloff set to 1. I believe it
is the default value that vim ships with, because I've never changed it
and indeed didn't even know there was a scrolloff feature.
Unless your distribution or a plugin has messed with the setting,
stock vim defaults to 0.
I mean, it does make sense that when you move forward a screen, you
want to see some context of where you are right? Or maybe it's just me.
I tend to leave the default most of the time, only setting it
temporarily as-needed. Mostly because I use the
zt/z<cr>/zb/z-/z./zz family of commands to push a particular line
to the top/bottom of the window, and 'scrolloff' interferes with
my intentions here.
For horizontal scrolling, there's also the companion
'sidescrolloff' option.
-tim
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