From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Default mouse wheel scrolling is jumpy Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 21:16:53 -0400 Message-ID: References: <1431982998.3001.0@smtp.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1431998230 21617 80.91.229.3 (19 May 2015 01:17:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 01:17:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Simen =?windows-1252?Q?Heggest=F8yl?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 19 03:17:01 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YuW9V-0003UY-5v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 May 2015 03:17:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43488 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YuW9T-0007PG-V7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 May 2015 21:16:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56840) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YuW9R-0007PB-9v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 May 2015 21:16:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YuW9O-000175-1i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 May 2015 21:16:57 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:16435) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YuW9N-00016v-Ui for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 May 2015 21:16:53 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgUFAGvvdVTO+LMW/2dsb2JhbAA3gVOhb4EIgXUBAQQBViMFCws0EhQYDSSIE6IRi3UOHgJBCQMBAoM+Aw+DYQSjY4RY X-IPAS-Result: AgUFAGvvdVTO+LMW/2dsb2JhbAA3gVOhb4EIgXUBAQQBViMFCws0EhQYDSSIE6IRi3UOHgJBCQMBAoM+Aw+DYQSjY4RY X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.11,557,1422939600"; d="scan'208";a="120742655" Original-Received: from 206-248-179-22.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([206.248.179.22]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 18 May 2015 21:16:54 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 606282B99; Mon, 18 May 2015 21:16:53 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <1431982998.3001.0@smtp.gmail.com> ("Simen =?windows-1252?Q?H?= =?windows-1252?Q?eggest=F8yl=22's?= message of "Mon, 18 May 2015 23:03:18 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:186608 Archived-At: > It's especially bad in the cases where it's hard to control each > scroll event, such as with laptop touchpads or with ThinkPad-style > trackpoints. Then I find the default scrolling mechanism next to > unusable. I see Firefox uses more like a setting of 2 rather than 5 nowadays, so maybe we should revisit those defaults indeed. Part of the reason is that devices have changed. With the (old) wheel-mouse I'm using a setting of 5 works rather well, but the rare few times I've used a touchpad with a scroll area, I've indeed found the behavior to be difficult to use. Stefan