[webspiderus]

I've had a similar gripe with scrolling, although I encountered with text editors instead of browsers. Having used Sublime Text for a while (which does what the article suggests and shows you as much white space as is needed to keep the display consistent), it is really jarring using many of the other editors which refuse to do this, especially as I often tend to write new code at the bottom of the page.

Being forced to consistently look at the bottom of my screen instead of the top or the middle is pretty annoying, maybe a change in browsers could trigger a change in text editors as well!

[losvedir]

> Having used Sublime Text for a while (which does what the article suggests and shows you as much white space as is needed to keep the display consistent)

Really? Was there some sort of option you turned on?

I'm a happy ST2 user (bought my license a couple weeks ago), but that's been one issue I've had lately. I can't seem to scroll past the bottom of the page. For now I've just been typing with my cursor at the bottom of the screen, but I'd love to move it to the middle. (as in vim's zz).

[jaylevitt]

Add "scroll_past_end": true to both your File settings and your User settings.

[losvedir]

Ahhhh, works beautifully. Thanks so much!!!

[tikhonj]

Emacs does this, and so does Vim (I think). The main difference, I suspect, is that people who use Emacs and the like don't use their scroll-bars nearly as often as using a keyboard to get around; people using some of the other text editors, on the other hand, probably navigate with the mouse more. I think the behavior proposed here is oriented towards the former more than the latter, which would also explain the different behavior in text editors.

[jdpage]

IIRC, Visual Studio does it too in some cases. You can't scroll past the end of the code, but if you jump to a point in the code, it will always put it at the top of the screen, and provide an overscroll area if necessary.