From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bernardo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs 23 scrollbar behavior Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:39:38 +1100 Message-ID: <4B9AFAEA.6070703@pobox.com> References: <4B9A1954.3090000@sun.com> <6A2DE4FE-D92F-42A3-90BF-0C9D4DB521FC@Web.DE> <4B9A6496.8030100@sun.com> Reply-To: Bernardo Bacic NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1268449181 28474 80.91.229.12 (13 Mar 2010 02:59:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:59:41 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 13 03:59:37 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NqHZg-0008Kk-Hc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:59:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50949 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NqHZe-0002DM-WE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:59:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NqHZF-0002Cy-BQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:59:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56436 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NqHZC-0001uO-HD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:59:09 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NqHIo-00007g-7X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:42:11 -0500 Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:47382 helo=sasl.smtp.pobox.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NqHIo-00007P-5W for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:42:10 -0500 Original-Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7678A150E for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:42:07 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=message-id :date:from:reply-to:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=sasl; bh= 8YVPJulpjjWMcl+FSuKtlkV+pes=; b=pWObNG2HoLjO9BVpoHmTIc7harOkU4Am 5ToHn0LlTMQjWMQyRljBmJL3Qrh/1LhLZi0BV8ZP3Q5GPjnIvP6dgM7aTaOQ/8Ab EZw5qn3gZC/396hoNaefNxYkXuPjrKmUrsrGUAshpS8G8Um3m7Pq0+1+vGGoztD8 3WlAPPgV9gw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=message-id:date :from:reply-to:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=sasl; b=xqeKDf f/PrS+h5sk1zbNJlMk4g/uj/qOrTTeI0hUiwpvqUHnn14Kly3Ej3xHHkB0tpsKGG BSa24pwd4U6fp1IaTKP8eydktEF227S//Rs6fz1ESlkoKu+f0kb/p84VehUuVfyN i+kAoOtQZQYJVrmBkf+9pe19EnalVaRAN2WPk= Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B36A0A150D for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:42:07 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.10] (unknown [115.70.111.33]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 20478A150C for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:42:06 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090812) In-Reply-To: <4B9A6496.8030100@sun.com> X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 042E42DC-2E4A-11DF-8D23-D033EE7EF46B-14340206!a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:72407 Archived-At: > I have a mouse with a scroll-wheel. An I use it a lot. But often I have > to skip more than a few lines. Moving a quarter of a 4000 lines source > file means to move 1000 lines. I use to do that with the scroll bar, > rather than with a hundred wheel turns. not addressing your original question, but to jump over large chunks in a file you may want to consider an alternative to reaching for the mouse, like in your case (roughly): C-2 M-< ,----[ (beginning-of-buffer &optional arg) ] | Move point to the beginning of the buffer; leave mark at previous | position. | With C-u prefix, do not set mark at previous position. | With numeric arg N, put point N/10 of the way from the beginning. | (beginning-of-buffer &optional arg) | ... `----