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From: pjs@ARISTOTLE-GW.JPL.NASA.GOV (Peter Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Smooth scroll for xterm
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Date: 6 Feb 90 18:20:18 GMT
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One of the features that a VT100 provides that's really neat when
scrolling through a large document is smooth scrolling, when the
text moves up a pixel at a time instead of a line at a time.  The
"smooth scrolling" referred to in the xterm documentation is not
this but rather the difference between scrolling a line at a time
and several lines at a time.

If anyone has implemented pixel-granularity smooth scrolling for
xterm, we'd be very interested in the diffs.  Unfortunately I
have neither the time nor the expertise to make such changes myself.
Yes, I know it'd be slow.  As long as it's as fast as I read it's
fast enough.

Peter Scott (pjs@grouch.jpl.nasa.gov)