From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Remi Ricard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Select and scroll too fast Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 16:09:46 -0500 Organization: Simlog Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <4TLba.47163$_P4.773206@wagner.videotron.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1047589910 15312 80.91.224.249 (13 Mar 2003 21:11:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 21:11:50 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 13 22:11:48 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18tZzQ-0003ym-00 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 22:11:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18tZyf-0001my-03 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 16:11:01 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!wesley.videotron.net!weber.videotron.net.POSTED!not-for-mail User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: fr-ca, en-us, en Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,dak@gnu.org In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 43 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.201.25.133 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@videotron.ca Original-X-Trace: weber.videotron.net 1047589769 24.201.25.133 (Thu, 13 Mar 2003 16:09:29 EST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 16:09:29 EST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:111069 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:7568 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:7568 David Kastrup wrote: Hi, >papaDoc writes: > > > >> I have a problem. When I select a region with the mouse and move >> the mouse down to select >>a bunch of lines then emacs start scrolling very fast, (too fast for me). >> >> I started to have this problem when I changed to a faster computer. >> >>If I give a value to this command can I solve my problem ? >>*scroll-up >> >> > >You are aware that you need not drag the mouse to mouse-mark a region? > This is exactly what I'm doing. I start dragging (the speed is OK, then the speed increase to much and I'm not able to stop it where I want. ;-( >Click on the beginning with left mouse button, then scroll around with >scroll bars or whatever else in order to get at the other interesting >point and click with right mouse button there. > I don't want to use the scroll bar since this is to much movement for me. I just keep dragging My mouse is and old 3 buttons mouse. (no scroll weel). > >Another right click at the same spot will delete the region, if >that's what you want. > >Of course, assuming a three button mouse... > > Those are the best mouse around...... Remi