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[paxanadu]

I wonder why this still is not in DF as the default setting.

Ever got tired of trying to build a room in the corner of a map, or simply that is not perfectly centered on the screen for some reason or another (--maybe you just want to be able to observe the rest of your fortress while at the same time building that room--), and then got frustrated because the cursor, instead of reappearing where you left it, re-centers itself on the screen each time.  Forcing you to rescroll it toward your work area where you are building stuff up?  Making you waste time for nothing?

What a pain that is.

Unless the cursor falls "outside" the current view, or within some arbitrary distance of the border (and easy numerical option to add in, ideally as a percentage), the cursor should always, by default, reappear .  If someone wants the cursor to ALWAYS reappear centered, well, he can always put an arbitrarily high number (say 100) as that option's value.

[Felblood]

Cursor memory for designations would be nice, but it would need to re-center if you moved the view too much (but still allow for vertical movement, and a little bit of scrolling). If the last cursor location (ignoring z coordinates) is on the screen, it should place the cursor there, when you call up a cursor.

The cursor location won't take more than a few bytes of memory, and the checks should only increase CPU load when the game is paused.