Scroll Restore mode is a minor mode to restore the position of `point' in a sequence of scrolling commands whenever that position has gone off-screen and becomes visible again. The user option `scroll-restore-commands' specifies the set of commands that may constitute such a sequence. The following additional options are provided: - Recenter the window when restoring the original position, see `scroll-restore-recenter'. - Jump back to the original position before executing a command not in `scroll-restore-commands', see `scroll-restore-jump-back'. The resulting behavior is similar to that provided by a number of word processors. - Change the appearance of the cursor in the selected window to indicate that the original position is off-screen, see `scroll-restore-handle-cursor'. - With `transient-mark-mode' non-nil Emacs highlights the region between `point' and `mark' when the mark is active. If you scroll `point' off-screen, Emacs relocates `point' _and_ the region. Customizing `scroll-restore-handle-region' permits to highlight the original region as long as the original position of `point' is off-screen, and restore the original region whenever the original position of `point' becomes visible again. Caveats: - Scroll Restore mode does not handle `switch-frame' and `vertical-scroll-bar' events executed within the loops in `mouse-show-mark' and `scroll-bar-drag' (these don't call `post-command-hook' as needed by Scroll Restore mode). - Scroll Restore mode may disregard your customizations of `scroll-margin'. Handling `scroll-margin' on the Elisp level is tedious and might not work correctly. - Scroll Restore mode should handle `make-cursor-line-fully-visible' but there might be problems. - Scroll Restore mode can handle region and cursor only in the selected window. This makes a difference when you have set `highlight-nonselected-windows' to a non-nil value. - Scroll Restore mode has not been tested with emulation modes like `cua-mode' or `pc-selection-mode'. In particular, the former's handling of `cursor-type' and `cursor-color' might be affected by Scroll Restore mode." - Scroll Restore mode might interact badly with `follow-mode'. For example, the latter may deliberately select a window A when the original position of a window B appears in it. This won't restore the appearance of the cursor when Scroll Restore mode handles it.