no mention of variable scroll-step in <Emacs::Controlling the Display::Scrolling> Info node

no mention of variable scroll-step in <Emacs::Controlling the Display::Scrolling> Info node

[Michael Slass]

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In GNU Emacs 21.1.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2001-10-22 on thneed.na.wrq.com
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

Folks ask "How do I make emacs scroll one line at a time?" on the *emacs*
newsgroups with some regularity.  The scroll-step variable should be
explained in the Scrolling info node.


Recent input:
<delete> <delete> <delete> <delete> <delete> <delete> 
<delete> <delete> <delete> <delete> <delete> <delete> 
<delete> <delete> <delete> <delete> <delete> <delete> 
<delete> <delete> <delete> <delete> <delete> <delete> 
<delete> <delete> <delete> <delete> <delete> <delete> 
<delete> <delete> <delete> <delete> n o SPC m e n t 
i o n SPC o f SPC v a r i a b l e SPC s c r o l l - 
s t e p SPC i n SPC e m a v c a <delete> <delete> <delete> 
<delete> <delete> <delete> E m a v c <delete> <delete> 
c s : : C-g u M-x M-p <return>

Recent messages:
Mark set
Composing main Info directory...done
Building index entries...
Making completion list...
Found `scrolling' in Concept Index.  (Press `,' for more)
isearch-abort: Quit
Mark saved where search started
keyboard-quit: Quit
Mark set
Loading emacsbug...done
byte-code: Quit

Re: no mention of variable scroll-step in <Emacs::Controlling the Display::Scrolling> Info node

[Richard Stallman]

scroll-conservatively is a newer and better feature than scroll-step,
and it is documented.