Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!syntron!jtsv16!uunet!yale!spolsky-joel From: spolsky-joel@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: Can scrolling be changed? Message-ID: <41751@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Date: 30 Oct 88 16:29:41 GMT Article-I.D.: yale-cel.41751 References: <392@megatek.UUCP> <3097@mipos3.intel.com> Sender: root@yale.UUCP Reply-To: spolsky-joel@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky) Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept, New Haven CT 06520-2158 Lines: 26 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? | | | ... just do a | | (setq scroll-step 1) | | to get what you want. | This works ok in *many* cases but not always. For example, if emacs decides that scrolling one line is not enough (e.g., when the line to be brought in is longer than the screen width and wraps to the next physical line), it will still scroll half a screen. +----------------+---------------------------------------------------+ | Joel Spolsky | bitnet: spolsky@yalecs uucp: ...!yale!spolsky | | | arpa: spolsky@yale.edu voicenet: 203-436-1483 | +----------------+---------------------------------------------------+ #include