This bug was fixed by RMS on 2004-11-02: ** scroll-preserve-screen-position doesn't work with a header-line-format From: jbyler+emacs-lists@anon41.eml.cc Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 17:10:14 -0400 There seems to be an off-by-one error triggered by using a header line together with scroll-preserve-screen-position. The symptom: instead of staying in the same position on the screen when scrolling, the cursor moves one screen line down each time the buffer is scrolled. Put another way: repeatedly typing C-v M-v or using a mouse scroll wheel to scroll up and down causes the cursor to migrate slowly down the screen instead of staying put as it should. To reproduce: emacs -q --no-site-file (setq scroll-preserve-screen-position t) (setq header-line-format "") C-v M-v C-v M-v C-v M-v etc.