Questions tagged [scrolling]
is for commands to move text up and down and sideways in a window. Scrolling forward moves the buffer text upwards and scrolling backward moves downwards. Horizontal scrolling moves the buffer text left or right. Emacs provides many functions, key bindings, and programming facilities for scrolling.
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(progn (scroll-up 1) (goto-char 0)) is different from (scroll-up 1) then (goto-char 0)
In any buffer, try to eval-expression the expression (scroll-up 1) and then eval (goto-char 0). The window scrolls up, then point is moved to the beginning of the buffer. Now, try eval-ing (progn (...
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Terminal Emacs not receiving <wheel-up> or <wheel-down>?
From what I understand, I should be able to get mouse scrolling to work in emacs nox mode with the following:
(require 'mouse)
(xterm-mouse-mode t)
(mouse-wheel-mode t)
(global-set-key (kbd "<...
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How to actually scroll with popup-tip :scroll-bar t?
Following this blog post, I am interested in using popup.el for my own purposes. In the post, he mentions to add a scroll bar with the :scroll-bar argument. If I include the :scroll-bar t option in ...
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Hook variable for horizontal scrolling
There is the hook variable window-scroll-functions for functions to be called before redisplay after vertical scrolling.
Is there a similar variable for horizontal scrolling?
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Synchronised scrolling of HTML file and eww buffer
I am editing a HTML file.
I have done C-x 3. Now, in the other split window, I want to open a browser, such as eww.
And as I move in the HTML file, I want the browser window to show the ...
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Scrolling in tmux in emacs
I'm using emacs to run ansi-term with an ssh'ed tmux inside. I can scroll using my prefix C-b + [ as per this thread, but I would like to be able to scroll with the mouse immediately.
This seems to ...
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fast moving cursor?
What can I add to my .emacs to make the cursor move more quickly? Specifically, I'm looking for faster rates for (holding arrow-keys and C-arrow keys (ie skipping over whitespace with my current ...
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“Negative” scrolling, or: actually recentering first line
Usually, there's some extra "virtual" space shown at the bottom of a buffer, which makes the visual appearance of a file longer than it actually is. This is quite convenient, e.g., if you're trying ...
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Horizontal Scroll Wheel on Mouseover Buffer
My mouse has a horizontal scroll function, where I can tap the scroll wheel left and right to scroll horizontally. By default, it seems Emacs does nothing with that. The scroll wheel produces <...
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Is it possible to use the mouse wheel for company mode?
I'm using the Cocoa version of Emacs. When company mode presents a list of completions you can use the mouse to select one. It would seem natural to be able to use the mouse wheel to scroll through ...
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Emacs 27 scrolling issue
In Emacs 27, in -nw mode at least which is what I use, I've found an issue with scrolling.
If you open emacs to see two files at once: emacs -nw -q file1 file2, and then scroll down the left window ...
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view-scroll-half-page-forward messes up scrolling
I have the following in my config
(setq scroll-preserve-screen-position 1)
;;scroll window up/down by one line
(global-set-key (kbd "s-n") (kbd "C-u 1 C-v"))
(global-set-key (kbd &...
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scroll-preserve-screen-position screws up evil-scroll-down (C-d) in evil
centered-cursor-mode has been extremely sluggish so I found that this setup achieves the same without the slowness:
(setq scroll-preserve-screen-position t
scroll-conservatively 0
maximum-...
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org-mode and insert-sliced-image
I read in the Emacs manual online about using insert-sliced-image to create smooth scrolling with inline images.
I would like to use this to override org-toggle-inline-images, so that I can get ...
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Tabbar scrolling jumps back
I am using tabbar and some settings for smooth scrolling which seem to conflict with each other in a weird way. Here is a minimal init.el file:
(package-initialize)
(setq mouse-wheel-scroll-amount '(...
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Set scroll-amount for mouse wheel in .emacs
What I've tried in .emacs (note: I don't know elisp, and just tried cobbling this stuff together from googling and from other people's stuff) is
(mouse-wheel-mode 't) ;;; mouse-wheel enabled
(setq ...
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mouse-wheel-follow-mouse for horizontal scrolling?
I like having mouse-wheel-follow-mouse set to non-nil, so I can use the trackpad to scroll an inactive window. Unfortunately, it doesn't apply to horizontal scrolling, so if I try to scroll an ...
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How can I prevent a setting in init.el from being overridden during startup?
Using emacs-mac-port, and I'm trying to configure horizontal scrolling with the trackpad. The following expressions work if I execute them manually via eval-last-sexp,
(global-set-key [wheel-right] (...
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scroll-preserve-screen-position causes cursor to move forward one character at screen boundary
I am using (setq scroll-preserve-screen-position t) as suggested at https://superuser.com/a/184421/39697, and it works well, except for me, when I scroll at the top of the screen using scroll-up-line,...
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How to distinguish a scroll from a change of buffer in a function called from ‘window-scroll-functions’?
I've written a function that recenters the point each time it makes a long jump and I added it to the hook window-scroll-functions. The length of the jump is determined by comparing the return value ...
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Scroll by visual line in `centered-cursor-mode`?
Mouse scrolling with visual-line-mode in centered-cursor-mode is jumpy as anything when you're writing prose. A single line of text can be 10 or more visual lines.
Editing in refill-mode or auto-fill-...
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Scrolling lag on Linux
Emacs scrolling is lagging for me on Linux but not on macOS. I'm using Ubuntu 20 and also tried Solus but behavior is the same. Faster system helps but not enough. What so special about emacs build on ...
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disable automatic python file scrolling if using blacken or yapfify
I am using blacken to automatically format my python files
(use-package blacken
:demand t
:after python
:init
(add-hook 'python-mode-hook 'blacken-mode)
)
(use-package python
:mode ("\\.py\\'" ...
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mac-mwheel-scroll screws centered-positon-mode when using mouse pad on a macbook laptop
I am able to scroll using navigation buttons and external mouse on a Mac with this code that keeps the cursor at a specific line at all times.
I am using this code since it is much faster than ...
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Why is scrolling line-by-line so much slower compared to vi-mode?
I was wondering if anyone has faced this issue before or is just me loosing my mind? It seems that C-n and C-p are so slow and sluggish compared to the j and k keys when using evil-mode. Is there any ...
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Horizontal Scroll Bar Mode with trackpad
How can I use my trackpad to scroll left and right, when in horizontal-scroll-bar-mode?
I am running GNU Emacs 25.3.3 (x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0, Carbon Version 157 AppKit 1265.21) of 2017-09-28.
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How to scroll down/up by one full screen?
Is there a way to scroll down/up by one full screen? My keyboard doesn't have special purpose keys for this function.
In other words, is there a single command that is equivalent to the following ...
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Synchronizing the units in which horizontal scrolling is measured with buffer columns
The problem I am trying to solve is determining how many columns of the current buffer are hidden due to horizontal scrolling. The documentation states:
The horizontal scroll position is measured ...
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how to debug who move cursor
I have very annoying problem, after I run M-x compile time to time
cursor jump from middle of buffer to the first line.
I want to find out culprit (I found mode who responsible for this,
but I want ...
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Adjust scrolling after font increase/decrease
After text-scale-decrease or text-scale-increase scrolling (e.g. with space, scroll-down) does not seem to take the text scaling into account. Is there a way to adjust the scroll commands to reflect ...
