Re: how to stop cursor from moving when scrolling?

[David Hansen]

On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 12:25:40 +0200 Paminu wrote:

> David Hansen wrote:
>
>>>> Am 07.10.2005 um 01:00 schrieb Paminu:
>>>> 
>>>>> When I scroll through some text in emacs the cursor
>>>>> follows. How do I make the cursor stay where I put it??
>>
>> What about C-SPC (C-v M-v as much as you want) and C-x C-x?
>
> When I do C-SPC and scroll all the text gets selected. Thats is because I
> like to use C-SPC and the arrows to select a region that I afterward can
> delete by pressing del.

I see, you use transient-mark-mode.  At least in CVS emacs you
can enable transient-mark-mode temporally (by hitting C-SPC
twice).  So i don't see any reason why to have it enabled.

Anyway, probably registers will help you (eg. C-x r SPC 1 RET,
scroll around and C-x r j 1 RET, more in the emacs manual).

David