From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is it possible to scroll smoothly in Emacs? Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 13:41:56 +0000 Message-ID: <87vblrpm57.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> References: <86tx1codxj.fsf@mailinator.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417700553 14243 80.91.229.3 (4 Dec 2014 13:42:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 13:42:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Bug Dout Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 04 14:42:26 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1XwWfm-0006w4-NG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2014 14:42:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45911 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwWfm-0000NV-Bk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2014 08:42:22 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48578) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwWfW-0000NK-OV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2014 08:42:11 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwWfS-0003AK-Ds for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2014 08:42:06 -0500 Original-Received: from cheviot22.ncl.ac.uk ([128.240.234.22]:36567) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwWfS-00039w-7p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2014 08:42:02 -0500 Original-Received: from smtpauth-vm.ncl.ac.uk ([10.8.233.129] helo=smtpauth.ncl.ac.uk) by cheviot22.ncl.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1XwWfM-00077R-FL; Thu, 04 Dec 2014 13:41:56 +0000 Original-Received: from jangai.ncl.ac.uk ([10.66.67.223] helo=localhost) by smtpauth.ncl.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1XwWfM-0003Yx-MB; Thu, 04 Dec 2014 13:41:56 +0000 In-Reply-To: <86tx1codxj.fsf@mailinator.com> (Bug Dout's message of "Wed, 3 Dec 2014 09:12:24 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 128.240.234.22 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:101395 Archived-At: Bug Dout writes: > Marcin Borkowski writes: > >> (Not that I really need it - I recommended Emacs to one student, and >> lack of smooth scrolling was one of his main gripes.) > > Spoiled young whipper-snappers, in my day I carried punch cards to the > computer center, in the snow, and uphill both ways. And damn grateful > for the opportunity. Without wishing to be negative about the humour, the original question was a good one. One of my students, showed me some code the other day; it was a minute or two before I realised it was in emacs. He's got it set up with mininal window decoration, with some other windows clustered around. It looked really very funky and modern. Next time I saw him, he was trying out lightable, which also is very cool. He said the editor is not very good, though, and he's having helm withdrawl symptoms. Looking cool and modern is important. Personally, I dislike smooth scrolling but it is often what people expect. I notice that there are two smooth scrolling packages on emacs-wiki and melpa. Do these do what the OPs student was expecting? Phil