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From: vanMelle.pa@Xerox.com (Bill van Melle)
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
Subject: Re: scroll mode?
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Date: 27 Feb 90 22:24:31 GMT
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In article <479@texas.dk> storm@texas.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes:
>In 6.4, there will be a variable "scroll-clear-page" which is set by
>default, and causes the screen to be cleared before displaying the next
>page of an article.  If it is not set, nn will do as Bernie suggests.

The reason I much prefer a rolling scroll mode, as in rn, is that when
advancing to the final page of the article, I still get to see some of
the previous page on the screen.  This is particularly nice in the case
where a message consists of a small amount of text (typically concluding
with a "spoilers follow"), a formfeed, and a small amount of text.  In
rn I can see this whole message on the screen at once, but nn insists on
blanking the screen before showing the second half.