From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Bingham, Jay" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: emacs scrolls too fast when mouse-dragging selection Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 14:48:02 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <72A87F7160C0994D8C5A36E2FDC227F5091165FD@txnexc01.americas.cpqcorp.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1077050997 25168 80.91.224.253 (17 Feb 2004 20:49:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 20:49:57 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 17 21:49:50 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AtCAA-0006y9-00 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 21:49:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AtC9Y-00008c-Hk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 15:49:12 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AtC94-000070-NW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 15:48:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AtC8T-0008Hj-RC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 15:48:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [161.114.32.104] (helo=zcamail04.zca.compaq.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AtC8T-0008HF-CB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 15:48:05 -0500 Original-Received: from cacexg12.americas.cpqcorp.net (cacexg12.americas.cpqcorp.net [16.92.1.46]) by zcamail04.zca.compaq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F37AC4BFF for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 12:48:02 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from txnexc01.americas.cpqcorp.net ([16.74.7.21]) by cacexg12.americas.cpqcorp.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Tue, 17 Feb 2004 12:48:02 -0800 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6487.1 Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: emacs scrolls too fast when mouse-dragging selection Thread-Index: AcPzKxgWOwC+tPFKSmC6xamPfJjPEQCaSKSA Original-To: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Feb 2004 20:48:02.0648 (UTC) FILETIME=[55E58D80:01C3F597] X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:16954 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:16954 On Saturday, February 14, 2004 12:43 PM Kai Grossjohann wrote: > nospam55 writes: > >> I click and drag down with the mouse on the window to extend >> selection: when I reach the top margin of the window then the text >> in the window scrolls upwards in order to make visible new text down >> ; all of this is normal behavior, of course; the problem is that >> right after the first lines , the scrolling becomes suddenly too >> fast to control, and I "crash" quickly on the end of file, almost >> always far too down for the amount of text I wanted to select. > > Does it help to frob the variable mouse-scroll-delay? > > Does it help to frob scroll-conservatively? (My understanding is you > need to give it a high value, but I'm not sure.) I too have noticed this fast scrolling and been annoyed by it, so I tried Kai suggestions and found that they have no effect on the fast scrolling. While trying them I believe that I may have found a bug. When I placed the cursor at the start of a word before dragging commenced scrolling proceeded at a reasonable rate (and with the mouse-scroll-delay set to 0.5 rather than 0.25 scrolling was noticeably slower), but when I placed the cursor in the middle of a word scrolling took off like it is going to a fire (regardless of the value in mouse-scroll-delay). This occurs in the following modes: text mode, awk mode and shell script mode. -_ J_) C_)ingham . HP - NonStop Austin Software & Services - Software Quality Assurance . Austin, TX . "Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade in public. . Never clothe them in vulgar and shoddy attire." -Dr. George W. Crane-