Re: pixel-scroll-precision-mode very slow on macOS with regular mouse wheel

[Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>]

On 8 December 2021 11:35:18 GMT, Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org> wrote:
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>On 8 December 2021 05:48:47 GMT, Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>Aaron Jensen <aaronjensen@gmail.com> writes:
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>>> macOS scrolling w/ a mouse wheel has acceleration. If I scroll slowly,
>>> it goes very slowly, 1 tick is a couple pixels. If I scroll quickly I
>>> can go through a whole page in a handful of ticks. Perhaps that
>>> mechanic would need to be replicated?
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>>I don't understand what you mean by that: when precision deltas are not
>>available (which is the case with your mouse), Emacs uses the fallback
>>deltas provided by macOS, which should be sufficient for our purposes.
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>>But I suspect I misunderstood how those deltas work.  They might be
>>reported as portions of an abstract unit, instead of in pixels, which is
>>the case with precise deltas.
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>>In that case, we will have to scale those deltas by some method, but I
>>don't know what TRT is for macOS.
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>Apple's docs say multiply them by the line height, so a delta of 1.0 should scroll one line. You deleted the comment in the code that explained that.

Sorry, I see now that the comment is actually still there.
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