Re: redisplay-dont-pause is not mentioned in the Emacs manual

[Ralf Angeli]

* Kim F. Storm (2006-06-05) writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> From: Ralf Angeli <address@hidden>
>>> 
>>> I have [redisplay-dont-pause] enabled for all my Emacs installations
>>> because I cannot stand the way buffer contents are updated during
>>> scrolling if it is not.
>>
>> I think that's a bug that should be reported and fixed.
>
> How?
>
> Normal redisplay is restarted whenever it is interrupted by user
> input.  For example, pressing and holding the down-arrow key will be
> "randomly jumpy" -- depending on the speed of the computer vs. the key
> "repeat rate" of the keyboard.

One should probably add that the effect is most apparent with
(setq scroll-conservatively 1000)
on a slow computer.

-- 
Ralf