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**igor333** · October 11, 2023, 11:01pm

Currently, if you press ctrl+up/down and significantly move the visible screen, the caret will follow along.

I think a more natural behavior for the caret would be to stay in place. Like when in Word or Libreoffice Writer you drag the screen up or down with the mouse, the caret doesn’t move.

It would be nice to introduce such an option. Thank you.

**OdatNurd** · October 12, 2023, 12:44am

You may find this plugin useful; if you’ve never installed a plugin before, see this video on how to install plugins in Sublime.

github.com

STealthy-and-haSTy/SublimeScraps/blob/master/plugins/selectionless_scroll_lines.py

import sublime
import sublime_plugin

# This implements a selectionless_scroll_lines command that is a drop in
# replacement for the scroll_lines command that is in the Sublime core; it
# does the same thing but scrolls the view without changing the location of
# the cursors as the built-in command does.
#
# The following key bindings show how to use it (they overwrite the built-in
# key bindings on the built-in command, blocking them from being used via the
# keyboard).

# { "keys": ["ctrl+up"], "command": "selectionless_scroll_lines", "args": {"amount": 1.0 } },
# { "keys": ["ctrl+down"], "command": "selectionless_scroll_lines", "args": {"amount": -1.0 } },

class SelectionlessScrollLinesCommand(sublime_plugin.TextCommand):
    """
    Scroll the view into the file up or down by the amount provided, leaving
    the cursors in their current location.
    """

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**igor333** · October 12, 2023, 3:03pm

@OdatNurd Many thanks for this plugin, it works just fine!

Prevent caret from moving with screen movement