From: Larry Troxler

Subject: Re: emacs interface scroll behavior

Date: 1999-2-1 22:36

Erik Naggum wrote:
> > * Larry Troxler <westnet.com at lt> > | HOWEVER, I'd like to go the next step now and figure out how to have > | this done automatically everytime eli detects that the Lisp prompt has > | been received. > > since I think your is a fairly legitimate request, I have gone through > the Emacs and ELI sources to see if I could tweak something, but I did > not find what you are asking for. I found something I didn't know about, > though: a huge value for SCROLL-CONSERVATIVELY does what you want, or > very nearly so. > > I don't know if this variable is in XEmacs, but see if it is and then try > something like this: > > (setq scroll-conservatively 1000) >
Yes this works for me, although I don't really understand what it does, or more precisely, *when* it does what it does - the documentation string for that var, at least in xemacs, is very terse and non-enlightening. Thanks. -- Larry Troxler -- <westnet.com at lt> -- Patterson, NY USA --