How may I scroll with vim into a big file ?

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Published on 2009-02-18T15:27:43Z Indexed on 2010/03/23 3:31 UTC
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Hello,

I have a big file with thousands of lines of thousands of characters.

I move the cursor to 3000th character.

If I use PageDown or <CTRL>-D, the file will scroll but the cursor will come back to the first no-space character.

There's is an option to set to keep the cursor in the same column after a such scroll ?

I have the behavior with gvim on Window, vim on OpenVMS and Cygwin.

Regards

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