bug#68196: 30.0.50; pixel-scroll-precision-mode won't scroll with scroll-margin 2 using macbook trackpad

bug#68196: 30.0.50; pixel-scroll-precision-mode won't scroll with scroll-margin 2 using macbook trackpad

[Stefan Kangas]

Scrolling slowly with the trackpad in `pixel-scroll-precision-mode'
doesn't work as expected on my recent Macbook Pro with the below
settings.

Recipe to reproduce:

1. Evaluate this form in emacs -Q:

    (progn (setq scroll-step 0)
           (setq scroll-conservatively 500)
           (setq scroll-margin 2)
           (pixel-scroll-precision-mode))

2. Go to some sufficiently long buffer, scroll down a bit and move point
   to the top of the window: C-h i C-v

3. Scroll down slowly using the trackpad.

The window does not scroll down, instead it just bounces back and forth
at the top.

Note that if I scroll fast enough, the window does scroll down as
expected.

In GNU Emacs 30.0.50 (build 6, aarch64-apple-darwin23.2.0, NS
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bug#68196: 30.0.50; pixel-scroll-precision-mode won't scroll with scroll-margin 2 using macbook trackpad

[Yuan Fu]

> On Jan 1, 2024, at 3:05 PM, Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Scrolling slowly with the trackpad in `pixel-scroll-precision-mode'
> doesn't work as expected on my recent Macbook Pro with the below
> settings.
> 
> Recipe to reproduce:
> 
> 1. Evaluate this form in emacs -Q:
> 
>    (progn (setq scroll-step 0)
>           (setq scroll-conservatively 500)
>           (setq scroll-margin 2)
>           (pixel-scroll-precision-mode))
> 
> 2. Go to some sufficiently long buffer, scroll down a bit and move point
>   to the top of the window: C-h i C-v
> 
> 3. Scroll down slowly using the trackpad.
> 
> The window does not scroll down, instead it just bounces back and forth
> at the top.
> 
> Note that if I scroll fast enough, the window does scroll down as
> expected.

I think precision scroll requires you to set scroll-margin to 0. I don’t remember where I learnt that fact, CCing Lu since he must know.

Yuan

bug#68196: 30.0.50; pixel-scroll-precision-mode won't scroll with scroll-margin 2 using macbook trackpad

[Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors]

Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com> writes:

> I think precision scroll requires you to set scroll-margin to 0. I
> don’t remember where I learnt that fact, CCing Lu since he must know.
>
> Yuan

It does on Emacs 30.  There hasn't been any activity in bug#66769, where
several potential solutions are being considered that won't impede
scrolling over images.

bug#68196: 30.0.50; pixel-scroll-precision-mode won't scroll with scroll-margin 2 using macbook trackpad

[Stefan Kangas]

forcemerge 66769 68196
close

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I think precision scroll requires you to set scroll-margin to 0. I
>> don’t remember where I learnt that fact, CCing Lu since he must know.
>>
>> Yuan
>
> It does on Emacs 30.  There hasn't been any activity in bug#66769, where
> several potential solutions are being considered that won't impede
> scrolling over images.

Sorry, I had missed that this had already been reported.

I'm merging the bugs.