FW: Emacs + LessTif serious scroll judder when point-max is visib le

[Marshall, Simon]

Hi folks, I seem to remember someone (Gerd?) saying that there could be
a workaround for this problem, but that it would have to wait until
after 21.1.

Simon.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marshall, Simon 
> Sent: 07 September 2001 10:30
> To:   'Emacs Pretest Bug'
> Subject:      [21.0.105]: Emacs + LessTif serious scroll judder when
> point-max is visible
> 
> With LessTif (Version 2.1 Release 0.93.3) on Solaris 2.6.
> 
> xrdb -load
> ^D
> src/emacs -q
> 
> Open a directory which is large enough so that point-max is not
> visible.
> 
> Now drag the scrollbar down to see the bottom of the buffer.  While
> point-max is not visible, scrolling is fairly smooth.  When point-max
> becomes visible, there is serious judder (each scroll up of a line
> seems to involve scroll up, scroll down, scroll by one line) as point
> is moved to be at the start of the second line in the window.
> 
> Interestingly, Emacs only seems to try to keep point on the second
> line when point-max is visible.  It doesn't try it if point-max is not
> visible and it doesn't do it at all in the non-toolkit version of
> Emacs.
>