I've been experimenting around to make Emacs scroll with pixel-level
precision and have soon discovered `set-window-vscroll' which allows one
to adjust the vertical scrolling of a window in pixel steps with its
fourth argument. In an attempt to scroll further than a screenful, I
executed (set-window-vscroll nil 9000 t) which hung up Emacs. Bisection
of my init file revealed that this issue doesn't happen with an
uncustomized Emacs and that it's sufficient to either customize
`scroll-step' to have a value of 1 or `scroll-conservatively' to have a
large value (which is a common hack to allow line-level scrolling). Is
this interaction a bug? If not, can it at the very least be documented
in the docstring of `set-window-vscroll'?
In GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.14.3)
of 2014-10-21 on
bitzer.hoetzel.infoWindowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11603000
System Description: Arch Linux
Configured using:
`configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir=/usr/lib
--localstatedir=/var --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --with-xft
'CFLAGS=-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector-strong
--param=ssp-buffer-size=4' CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro'
Important settings:
value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
Major mode: Fundamental
Minor modes in effect:
tooltip-mode: t
electric-indent-mode: t
mouse-wheel-mode: t
tool-bar-mode: t
menu-bar-mode: t
file-name-shadow-mode: t
global-font-lock-mode: t
blink-cursor-mode: t
auto-composition-mode: t
auto-encryption-mode: t
auto-compression-mode: t
buffer-read-only: t
line-number-mode: t
transient-mark-mode: t
Recent input:
M-x r e p o <tab> <down-mouse-2> <mouse-2>
Recent messages:
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
Making completion list...
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