From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David De La Harpe Golden Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The unwarranted scrolling assumption Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 23:28:46 +0100 Message-ID: <4C252D9E.5000203@harpegolden.net> References: <83y6ech1oo.fsf@gnu.org> <83ocf8gx7e.fsf@gnu.org> <83fx0jgxk7.fsf@gnu.org> <83eig3gspa.fsf@gnu.org> <83bpb7gp2g.fsf@gnu.org> <837hlvglvh.fsf@gnu.org> <834ogzglaj.fsf@gnu.org> <8339wjgg8w.fsf@gnu.org> <83y6eagb7g.fsf@gnu.org> <4C1D24E3.5080402@harpegolden.net> <83sk4ig1t7.fsf@gnu.org> <83mxuqg0tz.fsf@gnu.org> <4C1D427D.9000503@harpegolden.net> <83bpb5fu7c.fsf@gnu.org> <837hltf5vr.fsf@gnu.org> <4C1FE262.3000407@harpegolden.net> <83lja5ef8g.fsf@gnu.org> <83aaqjdtxv.fsf@gnu.org> <4C25068D.8040403@harpegolden.net> <8339waes7r.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1277504976 3547 80.91.229.12 (25 Jun 2010 22:29:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 22:29:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 26 00:29:34 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1OSHOZ-0004HG-9F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 00:29:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58343 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OSHOL-0004uW-PZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:28:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=48136 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OSHOF-0004sC-SE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:28:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OSHOE-0004WR-Nf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:28:51 -0400 Original-Received: from harpegolden.net ([65.99.215.13]:54784) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OSHOD-0004W5-FX; Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:28:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [87.198.54.237] (87-198-54-237.ptr.magnet.ie [87.198.54.237]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "David De La Harpe Golden", Issuer "David De La Harpe Golden Personal CA rev 3" (verified OK)) by harpegolden.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17CA89C8C; Fri, 25 Jun 2010 23:28:46 +0100 (IST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100515 Icedove/3.0.4 In-Reply-To: <8339waes7r.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:126412 Archived-At: On 25/06/10 22:07, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 20:42:05 +0100 >> From: David De La Harpe Golden >> CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org >> >> Also bear in mind that it is probably keyboard repeat rate >> dependent - I don't know your keyboard repeat rate. > > I don't know it either, except that it's the highest repeat rate I can > get on Windows XP. > Searching, I see some reports online that the Windows max keyboard repeat rate setting is capped low in the GUI and you need to edit a registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Keyboard\KeyboardSpeed http://www.pbdr.com/ostips/keyrrate.htm I don't know if the value is on the exact same scale as the x11 value, but if so, note that 30 is a half to a third the speed I tend to use!