From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The unwarranted scrolling assumption Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:27:12 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87bpb8hkbz.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <87ocfcj7r4.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87631jvpzg.fsf@gmail.com> <87wrtxxurl.fsf@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1276850004 32365 80.91.229.12 (18 Jun 2010 08:33:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:33:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Sean Sieger , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 18 10:33:19 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OPX0p-00021x-1T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:33:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58586 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OPX0n-0000iM-Ur for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 04:33:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34442 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OPWz3-0007Vd-Mg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 04:31:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OPWz1-0007zj-0v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 04:31:29 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp-out2.starman.ee ([85.253.0.4]:46807 helo=mx2.starman.ee) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OPWz0-0007zS-RE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 04:31:26 -0400 X-Virus-Scanned: by Amavisd-New at mx2.starman.ee Original-Received: from mail.starman.ee (82.131.35.251.cable.starman.ee [82.131.35.251]) by mx2.starman.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44A603F4061; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:31:23 +0300 (EEST) In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:33:44 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:126137 Archived-At: >> BTW, how users are supposed to customize `scroll-conservatively' to >> most-positive-fixnum? To write into the customization integer field >> by hand all digits of 2305843009213693951? ;-) > > Any large integer, like 1000000, will suffice. But you have a point > that the defcustom for `scroll-conservatively' could have an option to > set it to max. The problem is that a large value of `scroll-conservatively' is an undocumented feature, so maybe it is not recommended? -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/