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What I would really like is an editor where I can fix the cursor line on the screen and have the document move around that line. I hate looking at the bottom of the window all the time when writing long documents.

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Me too.

What I do in my ~/.vimrc is:

    " Number of lines (context) around the cursor
    " You may like 3, or 5, or 10
    " A high number keeps the cursor in the middle of the editor
    set scrolloff=999

Then... it's always in the middle of the screen/window, even when working at really big resolutions.

In vim, set `scrolloff` to a large value.

https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Keep_your_cursor_centered_vertic...

close, but I want it to stay about a quarter of way down the screen.

This can be done playing with a number of lines... like 10 or 15. And it will stay at such distance (in lines) from the top or bottom...

Don't know a way to set it to a percent, but could be nice too, indeed.

This is why I like rich text editors like google docs instead of IDEs jammed with markdown extensions. Rich editors come from a lineage of word-processing tools that are first and foremost for writing paragraphs of text and content. They go out of their way to make the experience of reading and writing pleasant, not mechanical.

iA Writer has a “typewriter” mode that behaves like that.

Thanks for that info. That is the feature.

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