On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 10:47 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
> > Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 21:22:36 +0000
> >
> >  mouse-wheel-scroll-amount '(1 ((shift) . 5) ((control) . nil))
> >  mouse-wheel-progressive-speed nil
> >
> > FWIW, I like the suggested default change too. I anyways had the
> progressive speed set to nil in my config.
>
> It is strange that you-all say that, while for me the defaults work
> quite well.
>

This could be a combination of getting used to the default + the type of
mouse.

I use Logitech Performance MX mouse which has a hardware button (button
below the scroll wheel here:
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/814dF6jfIoL._SL1500_.jpg )
to toggle the scroll wheel to scroll smoothly vs in clicks. If I happen to
scroll in emacs with the scroll wheel in smooth mode, the default 5-line
scrolling gets very dizzy. OTOH the 1-line scrolling works fine in both
smooth and "clicky" scrolls.

Also I have disabled the progressive scroll in my config for quite some
time now. I don't have the notes with that setting, but I vaguely remember
the default setting to not give a very good scrolling experience.


> If you turn the wheel one click, does text scroll by 5 lines or by
> more?  I get exactly 5 lines, which looks to me a much better default
> than have it scroll by just one line.
>

Yes, functionally it behaves as expected; no issues there.

PS: Thanks to Tak and this thread, I learned about
mouse-wheel-scroll-amount. While I did not customize that option earlier, I
had unknowingly set a "scroll by 1 line" behavior by manually binding
mouse-4 and mouse-5.
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Kaushal Modi