From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The unwarranted scrolling assumption Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:30:29 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87ocfcj7r4.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87631jvpzg.fsf@gmail.com> <4C18211C.3070106@harpegolden.net> <87vd9j5neu.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> <83sk4misf2.fsf@gnu.org> <83iq5hiiin.fsf@gnu.org> <83fx0lihov.fsf@gnu.org> <838w6cixma.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1276867848 1155 80.91.229.12 (18 Jun 2010 13:30:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:30:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lennart Borgman , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 18 15:30:46 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 1OPbeZ-0005j2-N4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:30:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57766 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OPbeZ-0004T6-5G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:30:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=45767 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OPbeT-0004Pn-Jz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:30:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OPbeS-0008EJ-E5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:30:33 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183]:4963 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OPbeQ-0008Dd-FV; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:30:30 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEAEgRG0xLd+Hj/2dsb2JhbACfDnLBbIUbBI0Y X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.53,439,1272859200"; d="scan'208";a="68345053" Original-Received: from 75-119-225-227.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([75.119.225.227]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 18 Jun 2010 09:30:29 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id B7F347F26; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:30:29 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <838w6cixma.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:54:53 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:126150 Archived-At: >> - Then if I just hold down the down arrow it can happen after a while. >> - My output shows that it is because try_scrolling failed. > try_scrolling may legitimately fail in some cases. Maybe that's the problem. What are those legitimate cases and what could we do about them. Stefan