This is just a theory based on what I understand your symptoms to be. Check the settings and their meanings of scrolloff and scrolljump, and where they are/were set.
:verbose set scrolloff? :verbose set scrolljump? Then interpret their meanings as they apply to your conditions. :he scrolloff and :he scrolljump On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 3:40 PM Manfred Lotz <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't know exactly how to describe my problem. > > I have started gvim and loaded a file. > > The cursor goes to line 215 and the last visible lines in the gvim > window are line numbers 215 and 216. > > Now I type V, and go down to select lines of text. > > Very quickly, the buffer gets redisplayed in a way that now lines 219 > and 220 are at the beginning of the gvim window which is weird as lines > 215-218 are no longer visible. This is very irritating. > > Is there anything I can do to prevent this? > > -- > Manfred > > -- > -- > You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. > Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "vim_use" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
