Package: emacs21
Version: 21.4a-1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/emacs21-x
There are two serious problems with vertical scrolling as installed.
- Mouse wheel is disabled
Options -> Customize -> Editing -> Mouse -> Mouse Wheel Mode
- Scrolling when, for example, you are marking a block with the mouse
button held down, is way too fast to possibly control. This is improved
somewhat using:
Scroll Conservatively = 1
/etc/skel/.emacs:
(custom-set-variables
;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom -- don't edit or cut/paste it!
;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
'(mouse-wheel-mode t nil (mwheel))
'(scroll-conservatively 1))
These might be the emacs defaults but they are NOT appropriate defaults.
Redhat puts:
(cond (window-system
(mwheel-install)
))
in /etc/skel/.emacs. And the scroll speed wasn't unreasonable though
perhaps that was simply because emacs was so inefficient that it wasn't
a problem on slower CPUs but the code really needs to rate limit the scrolling
based on wall clock time.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages emacs21 depends on:
ii emacs21-bin-common 21.4a-1 The GNU Emacs editor's shared, arc
ii libc6 2.3.6-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjpeg62 6b-10 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libncurses5 5.5-2 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System Session Management
ii libtiff4 3.7.2-3 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii libungif4g 4.1.3-2sarge1 shared library for GIF images (run
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.0-6 X11 client-side library
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxmu6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii libxpm4 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X pixmap library
ii libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii xaw3dg 1.5+E-8 Xaw3d widget set
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4.sarge.2 compression library - runtime
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