Emacs: Setup Down Arrow Key for Screen Line or Logical Line

By Xah Lee. Date: .

down arrow key move by visual line or logical line

New in emacs 23. [see Emacs 23.1 Features (released 2009-07)]

By default, arrow up/down moves by visual line.

(setq line-move-visual nil)
;; t for true, nil for false
;; default is t

Arrow Up/Down Scrolls Screen

Alt+x scroll-lock-mode. When on, up/down arrow keys scroll the page, instead of moving the cursor.

This only turns it on in current buffer. There is no global setting.


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