From: Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Down arrow key skips lines when window too short
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 14:03:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <513f278c$0$3727$426a74cc@news.free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.21919.1363082690.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
* Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> in gnu.emacs.help:
> > When I use Emacs in full screen mode, the Down arrow key works just
> > fine for navigating down a source code buffer. But when the window
> > gets too short (e.g., C-x 2), then pressing Down begins to skip
> > "paragraphs" of code, making it hard to edit the desired line.
> The reason for this is a user-friendly behaviour: near the vertical
> ends of the buffer performs some jump-scroll to instantly show more of
> the hidden buffer contents.
> I don't know exactly how to cure the effect, maybe setting
> scroll-margin and scroll-step can adjust the behaviour to your
> likings.
The documentation for scroll-step says :
If you want scrolling to always be a line at a time, you should set
`scroll-conservatively' to a large value rather than set this to 1.
According to scroll-conservatively documentation, such a large value
should be more than 100.
--
DW
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-12 13:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-11 19:31 Down arrow key skips lines when window too short Andrew Pennebaker
2013-03-12 10:04 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-03-12 16:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-12 17:29 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-03-12 20:14 ` Andrew Pennebaker
2013-03-13 3:31 ` Andrew Pennebaker
[not found] ` <mailman.21919.1363082690.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-03-12 13:03 ` Damien Wyart [this message]
2013-03-12 16:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
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