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The calendar display scrolls automatically through time when you move out of the visible portion. You can also scroll it manually. Imagine that the calendar window contains a long strip of paper with the months on it. Scrolling the calendar means moving the strip horizontally, so that new months become visible in the window.
Scroll calendar one month forward (calendar-scroll-left).
Scroll calendar one month backward (calendar-scroll-right).
Scroll forward by three months (calendar-scroll-left-three-months).
Scroll backward by three months (calendar-scroll-right-three-months).
The most basic calendar scroll commands scroll by one month at a
time. This means that there are two months of overlap between the
display before the command and the display after. >
(calendar-scroll-left) scrolls the calendar contents one month
forward in time. < (calendar-scroll-right) scrolls the
contents one month backwards in time.
The commands C-v (calendar-scroll-left-three-months)
and M-v (calendar-scroll-right-three-months) scroll the
calendar by an entire screenful—three months—in analogy with the
usual meaning of these commands. C-v makes later dates visible
and M-v makes earlier dates visible. These commands take a
numeric argument as a repeat count; in particular, since C-u
multiplies the next command by four, typing C-u C-v scrolls the
calendar forward by a year and typing C-u M-v scrolls the
calendar backward by a year.
The function keys PageDown (or next) and PageUp (or prior) are equivalent to C-v and M-v, just as they are in other modes.
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