From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tyler Smith Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: a beginner's emacs troubles Date: 30 Jul 2007 04:10:26 GMT Organization: Sedgeboy Inc. Message-ID: References: <1185749317.489626.226270@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com> <87fy36oe4l.fsf@zeus.home> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1185770440 2372 80.91.229.12 (30 Jul 2007 04:40:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 04:40:40 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 30 06:40:34 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IFN3a-0006sE-7a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 06:40:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IFN3Z-0006Jp-Kj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 00:40:33 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!post01.iad01!news.aliant.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (Debian) Original-Lines: 33 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 142.177.125.234 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aliant.net Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:150594 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:46172 Archived-At: On 2007-07-30, Daniel Leidisch wrote: > "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