Vim: Stop Cursor Moving When The Page Scrolls

Question

It happens to me many times that I want to look at other parts of the code while writing a statement, but whenever I scroll the page and the cursor reaches the bottom or top of the page it starts scrolling with the page, which means I have to search for the line I have been writing in. This is really annoying. Any idea if this can be disabled or not?

Answer 1

It can't be disabled, but if you were writing a statement and want to get quickly back to where you were, just hit gi and you'll get back to where you were doing your last insert.

Answer 2

Another useful vim trick is setting marks. m{a-zA-Z} set a mark {a-zA-Z} at cursor position. You can then send the cursor (and the window) back there by `{a-zA-Z}.