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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?

weird scrolling in org-mode

I experience the same behavior in a small frame containing a shell buffer.

weird scrolling in *shell*

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?

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  • P.S. for people using compton with recordmydesktop (e.g. via the excellent camcorder.el), use the -CG flags to disable dark shadowing in the recording window. – wdkrnls Dec 6 '14 at 5:13
  • P.P.S. I used convert scrolling-in-shell.gif +dither -quality 60% -resize '600x400' -layers optimize -colors 24 scrolling-in-shell-2.gif to 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
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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.

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  • Hmm... I played around 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
  • It turns out that I had the smooth-scrolling package installed from Melpa and it was advising my cursor functions. It's amazing what you can find out from C-h k. – wdkrnls Dec 6 '14 at 18:56
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I had installed the smooth-scrolling package from MELPA. Removing it eliminated this particular scrolling behavior.

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