Re: a beginner's emacs troubles

[Tyler Smith <tyler.smith@mail.mcgill.ca>]

On 2007-07-30, Daniel Leidisch <news@leidisch.net> wrote:
> "f33ldead@gmail.com" <f33ldead@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>     * I want line-by-line scrolling. When I move the cursor at the
>> bottom of the screen and press down, emacs scrolls many lines, rather
>> than a single line.
>
> ,----[ C-h v scroll-step RET ]
>| scroll-step is a variable defined in `C source code'.
>| Its value is 1
>| 
>| 
>| Documentation:
>| *The number of lines to try scrolling a window by when point moves out.
>| If that fails to bring point back on frame, point is centered instead.
>| If this is zero, point is always centered after it moves off frame.
>| 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.
>| 
>| You can customize this variable.
> `----
>
> I have (setq scroll-step 1) in my .emacs.
>

And if you read back over the documentation you've just quoted, you'll
see that you should probably also have something like

(scroll-conservatively 50)

in your .emacs as well, if you want to scroll one line at a time ;)

Tyler