From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Damien Wyart Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Down arrow key skips lines when window too short Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 14:03:08 +0100 Organization: Serveur de News Free Message-ID: <513f278c$0$3727$426a74cc@news.free.fr> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1363108289 27879 80.91.229.3 (12 Mar 2013 17:11:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:11:29 +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 Mar 12 18:11:54 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 1UFSjx-0002z0-VB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:11:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56825 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UFSjb-0005Jw-EO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 13:11:31 -0400 X-Received: by 10.180.86.34 with SMTP id m2mr3666902wiz.5.1363093388876; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 06:03:08 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!yu2no116285wib.0!news-out.google.com!bp2ni87771wib.1!nntp.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!cleanfeed3-b.proxad.net!nnrp3-2.free.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.3.50 Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Mar 2013 14:03:08 CET Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.41.244.197 Original-X-Trace: 1363093388 news-1.free.fr 3727 213.41.244.197:59674 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:197207 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 13:11:20 -0400 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:89493 Archived-At: * Peter Dyballa in gnu.emacs.help: > > When I use Emacs in full screen mode, the Down arrow key works just > > fine for navigating down a source code buffer. But when the window > > gets too short (e.g., C-x 2), then pressing Down begins to skip > > "paragraphs" of code, making it hard to edit the desired line. > The reason for this is a user-friendly behaviour: near the vertical > ends of the buffer performs some jump-scroll to instantly show more of > the hidden buffer contents. > I don't know exactly how to cure the effect, maybe setting > scroll-margin and scroll-step can adjust the behaviour to your > likings. The documentation for scroll-step says : 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. According to scroll-conservatively documentation, such a large value should be more than 100. -- DW