On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 05:02:36PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > Recently, Gnome terminal's scrolling behaviour has gone strange. If I am > looking at a man page, or scrolling through a long text file with less > etc, or even just scrolling back through terminal history using > Shift-PgUp and Shift-PgDn, it sometimes gets "stuck" and doesn't scroll. > Then if I repeat the keystroke to scroll, it does it twice, skipping a > screenful. This is particularly annoying for example in Mutt, where > scrolling too far down a message causes Mutt to move to the next > message. I end up missing the end of the message and have to go back a > message to read it -- and then of course Mutt takes me back to the START > of the previous message, so I have to scroll down again, and guess what, > sod's law, it gets stuck in the same place... Picture the scene as I get > steadily more irritated...
I can't address the emulator's scrolling behavior in general, but in specific to mutt, you can add: set pager_stop = yes to your .muttrc and that will stop the automatic flip to the next message. A nice work-a-round until the emulator issue is resolved, anyway.
