RE: Emacs + LessTif serious scroll judder when point-max is visib le

[Marshall, Simon]

I find it better, and more reliable---without the patch using the
scrollbar I can regularly only scroll as far as to show the last n lines
of the buffer, where n varies from attempt to attempt.  With the patch,
I can always scroll down so that point = point-max = window-start.
Also, mouse-2 seems more reliable---without the patch sometimes mouse-2
in the scrollbar doesn't move point to where I would expect it to.

What don't you like about it Stefan?  That the scrollbar is always the
same size?  It doesn't bother me.

It's fairly easy to get a scrollbar scroll to the bottom of the buffer
to show a blank screen with point = point-max in the middle of the
window.  A C-l redisplays the text above point correctly.  I suspect
this is a bug with eXceed, as I've reported several other similar
problems that cannot be reproduced by others, but I aught to mention it.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan Monnier
> [mailto:monnier+gnu/emacs/address@hidden
> Sent: 30 November 2001 21:54
> To: Marshall, Simon
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Emacs + LessTif serious scroll judder when point-max is
> visible
> 
> If you feel like it, you can try the patch below which I've
> been using but am not satisfied with.  I haven't actually tried in
> with Motif/Lesstif, but (modulo bugs) it should solve the jitter
> problem at the cost of a less useful thumb-positioning.
> 
> Could people on emacs-devel try it out and tell me what they think
> about it ?