The bookmark function is too many clicks and does not tackle my issue. While playing the wav file, the crosshair / cursor always ends up at the right side of the screen eventually, unless you reposition it. Repositioning it uses up time. I only want to reposition the view, not the actual place of the cursor. I just want to be able to look and think ahead to what you cannot see yet, because you are waiting for it to appear on the screen. It is not possible to scroll while playing, without repositioning the cusor. Is it?
Situation one: you start playing back a file, the cursor is at the left of the screen. You can see silence, peaks everything that is visible on the screen and can anticipate your next moves / edits.
Situation two: after the cursor has reached the right side of the screen, it stays there while playing the file. There is no time to ancicipate or think ahead. Let's say you already know you want to delete a portion of the file (which often is the case), you have to wait for the portion to slide into the screen before you can delete / cut it away. There's no point in listening to the whole sentence if you already know you're going to delete it. If the crosshair could be repositioned to say the middle of the screen I could delete stuff faster, because it already is on the screen.
If the cursor / crosshair is at the far right of the screen the stuff to the far left of the screen is irrelevant to me, since I have already cleaned that up. Maybe you can compare my idea to the principle of disk cache-ing. I remember in some spreadsheet programs (a millenium ago) you could use the scroll lock function to change the way the sheet reacted while using the cursor keys. That's not exactly what I am looking for (or is it?), but it'll help you get an idea. In excell for instance, when I press page down only the view changes, not the selected cell. In WavePad this unfortunately doesn't work similarly.
You may ask: how can you know that you are going to delete something that is not on the screen yet? Well, because I recorded speech myself some minutes before I start editing and also know what mistakes that I read and want to cut out. Also, if the first word of the sentence I recorded is misspoken I delete the whole sentence. (While reading I correct the mistake immediately by reading the wrong sentence again, correctly.)
It is all about reducing lost time and reducing the amount of necessary mouseclicks. A scroll lock function isn't too much to ask I would say? I think it would save me about a minute time for every 10 minutes I read.
By the way, thanks for thinking along! 
