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How to keep cursor horizontal position while scrolling in VIM?

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Mar 15, 20262315 views
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Problem

Is it possible to keep cursor in constant horizontal position (column) while scrolling window (or moving cursor) up and down? For example if I have file with such lines: (I put . in places where there is space) When I have cursor at the end of "test" word and then move it down (or scroll window), cā€¦

Error Output

This.is.a.test
Short.one

This.is.a.longer.line

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The way I solve that is to set the 'virtualedit' option:

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