Re: Better macOS scrolling

[Tak Kunihiro]

>> I also compared with or without the patch on following setup.
>> 
>>   (setq mouse-wheel-scroll-amount '(5 ((shift) . 1) ((control))))
>>   (setq mouse-wheel-progressive-speed t)
>> 
>> Both are still too fast.
>
> Completely useless, imo.
>
>> I think your patch handles two issues.  One improves response of
>> touchpad and other changes default values.  I think two issues should be
>> separated out.
>
> I could split it into two, but I don’t see the benefit. The patch,
> including setting defaults, results in behaviour that is similar to
> other macOS applications. I’ve been over the previous discussions
> about changing the defaults for mouse-wheel-progressive-speed, and the
> general opinion seemed to be that we should be trying to make the
> defaults as close to the operating system’s standard as possible. This
> patch does that.
>
> It only changes them for the NS port running on macOS. If the same
> needs to be done on X and MS Windows, then that’s fine, and can be
> done, but it doesn’t change the fact that we need to set defaults to
> match the standard macOS behaviour.

I see.   Now I think it is a good idea.