I had this (setq scroll-step 1) in my .emacs file. Until I saw this page just moments ago, I never knew what the reason for mysterious lock up of display while scrolling was. Now that it is not there in my .emacs and I use only (setq scroll-conservatively 1000), I don’t understand why display gets locked up while scrolling.
I’ll see what happens if the smooth-scrolling.el is installed. Also, I never knew that scrolling was a big job in emacs. It should be, since it can display lines with multi-sized fonts. But couldn’t guess any further to reason.
A bit of wisdom from emacswiki
Tuesday, October 9, 2007 · 2 Comments
Categories: emacs
Tagged: emacs, scrolling, smooth scrolling
2 responses so far ↓
max // Tuesday, October 9, 2007 at 23:44
Disable highlight mode and keep your setting of scroll. This might solve your problem in emacs-unicode branch. No need of smooth-scrolling.el at all.
gnugalaxy // Friday, October 12, 2007 at 7:41
Did you mean disabling font-lock-mode? I tried, but couldn’t notice much of a difference so far. Since I do most of scrolling in ERC buffers and that was where I found the display getting locked for w hile and then jumping to the current location while continuously doing C-p or C-n.
Besides, ERC brings up colors even if font-lock is set to nil. Is emacs-unicode branch different from emacs22 package that ships with Debian testing?