Vim scrolling without changing cursors on-screen position

vim scroll cursor
Fzs2 picture Fzs2 · Aug 17, 2010 · Viewed 11.4k times · Source

When cursor is at middle of screen and i scroll down, the cursor moves upwards on the screen. I don't want it to do that.

How can i scroll without changing cursors on-screen position?

Solution, added after answer:

noremap <C-k> 14j14<C-e>
noremap <C-l> 14k14<C-y>

Answer

Alok Singhal picture Alok Singhal · Aug 17, 2010

There are two ways I can think of: ctrl-E and ctrl-Y scroll the buffer without moving the cursor's position relative to the window. I think that is what you want. Also, if you set scrolloff to a large number, you will get the same effect as ctrl-E and ctrl-Y with the movement keys. scrolloff setting will make it hard to get the cursor to move vertically relative to the window though. (Use something like :set so=999, so is an abbreviation for scrolloff.)

:help 'scrolloff'
:help scrolling

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