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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is it possible to scroll smoothly in Emacs?
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 17:35:27 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvbnnj82nq.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 877fy7azys.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl

> Actually, even though I personally don't miss smooth scrolling, that
> student did convince me that it's a good idea: it is quite easy to press
> C-v/M-v accidentally and get lost.  Smooth scrolling gives a visual clue
> of the direction we went in the file.  It's not really a question of
> aesthetics, it is a question of usability/UX.

FWIW, I agree.  I don't consider it high-priority enough to work on it,
but I'd welcome patches which provide something like it.


        Stefan




  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-12-04 22:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.15085.1417465063.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-12-03 17:12 ` Is it possible to scroll smoothly in Emacs? Bug Dout
2014-12-03 18:40   ` Drew Adams
2014-12-03 19:12   ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-04 13:41   ` Phillip Lord
2014-12-04 21:04     ` Marcin Borkowski
2014-12-04 21:47       ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2014-12-04 21:50         ` Marcin Borkowski
2014-12-04 22:35       ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-12-05 14:52         ` J. David Boyd
2014-12-05 16:15           ` Yuri Khan
2014-12-05 20:24             ` Marcin Borkowski
2014-12-01 20:17 Marcin Borkowski
2014-12-01 20:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-01 22:15   ` Marcin Borkowski
2014-12-02  3:34     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-02 12:12       ` Marcin Borkowski
2014-12-02 13:50         ` Eli Zaretskii

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