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From: dave@CS.WISC.EDU (Dave Cohrs)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Smooth scrolling
Message-ID: <8908041400.AA03184@romano.cs.wisc.edu>
Date: 4 Aug 89 14:00:07 GMT
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Your points are well taken.  I agree that there should be a termcap
equivalent for window systems, but there ain't.  I wonder what rms would
say about that.

> Umm, yes, but there are several different operations that cause
> scrolling.  For instance, C-u C-u C-u C-u C-n will probably scroll
> your screen.

I just tried that.  The minibuffer clears when I type the first C-u.
I'm sure there are other commands that could cause the same behavior,
but I haven't used them, at least not at the time that it causes ugly
screen updates.

dave