On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 11:01 +0000, Angus Leeming wrote:
> Martin Vermeer wrote:
> >> I guess more delay would make it easier, but at the big price of
> >> slowness when
> >> selecting many pages.  Big selections are slow enough as they are
> >> already. Smaller jumps, such as 1/4 or 1/5 of a page would make it
> >> easier, even if the
> >> delay is reduced further to keep the same scrolling speed as now.
> > 
> > Yes... but hard to do within the current paradigm. Actually scroll
> > speed dependence on where you keep the mouse would be best, but not
> > doable in my understanding without major change. (I actually tried
> > to make the 200 ms delay into a variable that could be tuned at
> > runtime, but failed miserably. Does anyone know if that can be done,
> > and how?)
> 
> What emacs does, IIRC, is make scrolling speed dependent on mouse
> position above or below the window. It the mouse is only just outside
> the window then scrolling speed is slow. If it's a long way above
> (below) the window, then scrolling is fast.
> 
> Is it difficult to use such an idea here?

Yes. Or perhaps not, if it would be an easy way to change the timeout
parameter on the fly.

- Martin

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