I find the way that the cursor scrolls in small frames unintuitive. When I press C-p I expect the cursor to move up a line. Instead, in the org-mode file below, right before the cursor gets to the #+RESULTS line it jumps up several lines to the displayed image. Maybe this is a bug?
I experience the same behavior in a small frame containing a shell buffer.
If not, and this is the intended scrolling behavior in small frames, is there a way to disable it to get line-by-line scrolling?
Adjust option scroll-margin to your liking. (You might also want to look at option scroll-step.)
Number of lines of margin at the top and bottom of a window. Recenter the window whenever point gets within this many lines of the top or bottom of the window.
scroll-margin, scroll-step, scroll-conservatively, auto-window-vscroll, and scroll-preserve-screen-position and didn't see any improvement.
– wdkrnls
Dec 6 '14 at 18:05
C-h k.
– wdkrnls
Dec 6 '14 at 18:56
I had installed the smooth-scrolling package from MELPA. Removing it eliminated this particular scrolling behavior.
convert scrolling-in-shell.gif +dither -quality 60% -resize '600x400' -layers optimize -colors 24 scrolling-in-shell-2.gifto make my gif files not 30 Mb. Hopefully, that saves someone a few minutes of headache... and makes up for any headaches induced by the gifs themselves. – wdkrnls Dec 6 '14 at 5:15