Scrolling

You're already a bit more efficient by learning to get around with the keyboard. Yes, a mouse allows you to pinpoint where you'd like to put the cursor, but it requires taking one hand from the keyboard. But as we begin scrolling around, you'll see we are saving more time still. Scrolling doesn't change the position of the cursor, it just changes which portion of the text is presented to you, just like using the scroll bar in other software. The commands to scroll are shown in Figure 5. The two most important commands are C-v to scroll down one screenful and M-v to scroll up one screenful. And no matter where your cursor is in the document you can scroll that point up to the center of the screen by with C-l.Together they are an easy way to navigate quickly up and down through the document. But there's a quicker way still to get where you're going: incremental searching. We'll look at that trick in section 13.

Figure 5: Scrolling