From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bob Proulx Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: *shell* jumps up and down Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 12:11:50 -0600 Message-ID: <20130402181150.GA16273@hysteria.proulx.com> References: <20130324173918.GA30905@hysteria.proulx.com> <874ng0ptbz.fsf@riseup.net> <20130324183810.GA24399@hysteria.proulx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1364926346 27700 80.91.229.3 (2 Apr 2013 18:12:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 18:12:26 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 02 20:12:54 2013 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 1UN5hV-000492-U4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Apr 2013 20:12:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53606 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UN5h7-00008h-6I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:12:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:38554) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UN5gZ-0007h2-Or for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:11:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UN5gX-0008Lo-8z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:11:55 -0400 Original-Received: from joseki.proulx.com ([216.17.153.58]:35085) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UN5gX-0008L9-2i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:11:53 -0400 Original-Received: from hysteria.proulx.com (hysteria.proulx.com [192.168.230.119]) by joseki.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 457D3211D5 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2013 12:11:51 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: by hysteria.proulx.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 05E002DC3E; Tue, 2 Apr 2013 12:11:50 -0600 (MDT) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130324183810.GA24399@hysteria.proulx.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 216.17.153.58 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:89903 Archived-At: Bob Proulx wrote: > W. Greenhouse wrote: > > I did some testing, and it seems--in Emacs 24.2, anyway--that this > > behavior is triggered by the combination of a `scroll-conservatively' > > value of <100 and `comint-scroll-show-maximum-output' set to t (which is > > the default). Changing either of these lets Emacs scrolling behavior do > > the same thing it does in the rest of Emacs. > > The problem seems to be with comint-scroll-show-maximum-output > interacting badly with automatic scrolling. Either by themself would > be okay. But the combination of them together is annoying. > ... > I tested this on Emacs 24 (Debian Unstable and Wheezy 7) and Emacs 23 > (Debian Stable Squeeze 6) and both behave the same and the same fix > addresses both of them nicely. My sanity is restored! I tested this with an older emacs 21 and the problem does not exist there. This problem of comint-scroll-show-maximum-output has appears to have been introduced in emacs 22. It wasn't there in previous releases. Bob