Your message dated Tue, 20 May 2014 23:27:37 -0700 (PDT) with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: Bug#372837 has caused the Debian Bug report #372837, regarding /usr/bin/emacs21-x: Scrolling problems to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---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 -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---I find it a bit hard to know what the two problems were supposed to be. Was the first that mouse-wheel scrolling was not enabled by default? It has been for some time now. (Current version is 24.3.) And was the second issue the speed of mouse scrolling once enabled? It seems fine to me, and presumably most other Emacs users, judging from the lack of complaints. If you still think there is an issue with the current version, 24.3, I suggest opening a new report directly with upstream.
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