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This question looks like How to keep cursor horizontal position while scrolling in VIM? but it's actually not.

Vim always tries to snap the cursor to the first non-whitespace character of the destination line while scrolling.

Consider this text:

A
    Line 2

Now the cursor points to 'A', when I press <C-d> to scroll a half page, Vim will automatically snap the cursor to 'L' in the second line.

What I want is to remain the horizontal position of cursor unless I explicitly command Vim to do so (like 'h', 'l').

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The option you want is 'startofline'. Specifically, you want to turn it off since it is on by default:

:set nostartofline

See:

:help 'startofline'

(with the single quotes as part of the help command)

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