Re: How to improve the pager

[Kai Grossjohann]

projorpheon ccf <projorpheon@gmail.com> writes:

> Thank you very much, Kai Grossjohann.
>
>>There is the variable scroll-preserve-screen-position in Emacs 21.
> The scroll-preserve-screen-position only effects on the
> scroll-up/scroll-down but
> not the page-up/page-down which use the forward-line.

What are page-up/page-down?  I have keys labeled like this on the
keyboard, and Page Down does like C-v whereas Page Up does like M-v.
All four keys preserve the screen position.

>>And there is scroll-in-place.el by Eric Eide.
> This one looks complicated and seems to be outdated. It might exactly
> do the same thing as the scroll-preserve-screen-position. what do you think
> about it?

It does not do the same thing as scroll-preserve-screen-position.  It
is very old, but that does not mean it is bad.

Yes, it is complicated, because it does a lot of stuff.  Luckily, I
think you can get it to do simple things fairly easily.

Kai