(Ctrl + up/down)-style scrolling in Emacs

Question

I don\'t mean smooth scrolling, but keeping the cursor at a fixed point, and always moving one \'screenful\', one line at a time, as one (in Eclipse or other IDEs) presses c

Answer 1

Separation of cursor (point) and viewport (window) is common in modern GUI. Unfortunately the Emacs display engine does not allow this. It's not dogmatic, just technical. If you want to write this feature, I'm sure the development team will welcome it.

You do learn to live with it though.

It's interesting that you have so much success bending Emacs to your will. Personally, I find if I don't at least meet Emacs half-way, it gives me pain.