Virtual space for cursor movement?

[Roland Richter]

Hi everybody,

is it possible (and if so, how?) to enable virtual space for cursor
movement?

I don't want the cursor to change its column position, when I go up or down
to a line, that is shorter than the current cursor position. This toggled
cursor jumping is really annoying.

Thanks in advance
Roland

[Barry Margolin]

In article <3ae049e9$0$11274$4dbe...@businessnews.de.uu.net>,

Roland Richter <roland....@philips.com> wrote:
>is it possible (and if so, how?) to enable virtual space for cursor
>movement?
>
>I don't want the cursor to change its column position, when I go up or down
>to a line, that is shorter than the current cursor position. This toggled
>cursor jumping is really annoying.

Try M-x picture-mode

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[Roland Richter]

The virtual space is working in picture-mode. Unfortunately all the other
editing features are disabled then (insert, indent ...)

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