Re: a beginner's emacs troubles

[Daniel Leidisch <news@leidisch.net>]

"f33ldead@gmail.com" <f33ldead@gmail.com> writes:

>     * I want line-by-line scrolling. When I move the cursor at the
> bottom of the screen and press down, emacs scrolls many lines, rather
> than a single line.

,----[ C-h v scroll-step RET ]
| scroll-step is a variable defined in `C source code'.
| Its value is 1
| 
| 
| Documentation:
| *The number of lines to try scrolling a window by when point moves out.
| If that fails to bring point back on frame, point is centered instead.
| If this is zero, point is always centered after it moves off frame.
| 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.
| 
| You can customize this variable.
`----

I have (setq scroll-step 1) in my .emacs.

Regards,

dhl