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Moving Text Within a Window

Sometimes you are looking at a full screen of text, and only part of the current paragraph you are reading is visible on the screen. The commands detailed in the following section are used to shift which part of the current node is visible on the screen.

SPC / Spacebar (scroll-forward)
C-v

Shifts the text in this window up to show more of the node which is currently below the bottom of the window. A numeric argument shows that many more lines at the bottom of the window; a numeric argument of 4 shifts all text in the window up 4 lines (discarding the top 4 lines), and shows four new lines at the bottom of the window. Without a numeric argument, Spacebar takes the bottom two lines of the window and places them at the top of the window, redisplaying almost a completely new screenful of lines.

Del /Delete (scroll-backward)
M-v

Shifts the text in this window down, the inverse of scroll-forward.
scroll-forward and scroll-backward moves forward and backward through the node structure of the file. If you press Spacebar while viewing the end of a node, or Del while viewing the beginning of a node, what happens is controlled by the variable scroll-behavior. See Manipulating Variables for more information.

C-l (redraw-display)

Redraws the display from scratch, or shifts the line whit the cursor to a specified location. With no numeric argument, ‘C-l’ clears the screen, and then redraws its entire contents. With a numeric argument of n, the line with the cursor is shifts to the nth line of the window.

C-x w (toggle-wrap)

Toggles the state of line wrapping in the current window. Normally, when lines wrap when they are longer than the screen width,; i.e., they continue on the next line. Lines which wrap display a ‘\’ in the rightmost column of the screen. You can cause such lines to be terminated at the rightmost column by changing the state of line wrapping in the window with C-x, w. When a line contains more than one screen width, ‘$’ appears in the rightmost column of the line, and the remainder is invisible.