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From: bug@bucsb.UUCP (Z^)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Can scrolling be changed?
Message-ID: <2120@bucsb.UUCP>
Date: 30 Oct 88 23:41:00 GMT
References: <392@megatek.UUCP> <3097@mipos3.intel.com>
Reply-To: bug@bucsb.bu.edu (Jay Wasserman)
Followup-To: comp.emacs
Organization: Boston Univ Comp. Sci.
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In article <3097@mipos3.intel.com> woodstock@sc.intel.com (Nate Hess) writes:
>In article <392@megatek.UUCP>, hollen@spot (Dion Hollenbeck) writes:
>>Can the method of scrolling be changed in GNU-emacs?  It currently
>>repaints the entire screen and moves the cursor to the  center
>>when scrolling up or down is needed.  Can it be made to scroll
>>one line at a time up or down like a regular terminal?
>
>In GNU Emacs, there is usually a variable that controls behavior such as
>this.  What I did to discover the variable name was
>'C-h v scroll TAB', which completed to 'scroll-step'.  Upon pressing
>RET, I was given a help buffer containing:
>
>scroll-step's value is 0
>
>Documentation:
>*The number of lines to try scrolling a window by when point moves out.
>If that fails to bring point back on screen, point is centered instead.
>If this is zero, point is always centered after it moves off screen.
>
>
>So, just do a
>
>(setq scroll-step 1)
>
>to get what you want.
>

i tried this and it works when scrolling with arrows keys very badly...
if i scroll to fast it reverts back to the centering method....
so my question is ..can this be fixed so no matter how fast i scroll
with the arrow keys it will only go one line at a time?

-Jay-

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