Re: Annoying arrow key scroll behaviour in emacs 27

[Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>]

Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:

Hi Steinar,

> Platform: debian 11.1 "bullseye", amd64
>           Emacs 27.1
>           Display on windows 10 using MobaXTerm and SSH tunneling
>
> Arrow up and down scroll the window instead of moving the cursor, when
> the buffer has more lines than is visible.

Are you saying that the behavior changes depending on if the buffer fits
into one window, i.e., in the case where it does the arrows move point
and otherwise scroll?

> Do anyone know what has caused this and how to make it stop?
>
> I.e. I would like to have arrow up and down move the cursor instead of
> scrolling the buffer.

The first thing I'd check was see what `C-h k' says about pressing the
up/down arrows.  The expected answers would be that <up> is bound to
`previous-line' and <down> is bound to `next-line'.  What does it say
for you?

Bye,
Tassilo