Date:	Wed, 5 Apr 2000 11:52:45 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	dennis51 AT my-deja DOT com
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Subject:	Re: Emacs help (was Re: DJGPP for Linux?)
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On Wed, 5 Apr 2000 dennis51 AT my-deja DOT com wrote:

> Please tell me how to solve the following problem with emacs:

Questions about Emacs usage that are unrelated to DJGPP should be
posted to the gnu.emacs.help or comp.emacs news groups.

> If I am using emacs on a 500 line file, and line 250 is in the
> center of the screen, and the curser is on line 250, and I press
> Page Up and then Page Down, I see that line 250 is again at the
> center of the screen, but the curser is now near the top of the
> screen.
> 
> What I want, is that after pressing Page Up n times followed by
> pressing Page Down n times, the screen and curser be in
> exactly the same position as before.

Put the following in your .emacs file:

(setq scroll-preserve-screen-position t)

This variable is described in the on-line manual under "Scrolling".
It is also easy to find using the "M-x apropos" command.

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