Re: scroll-conservatively overflow

[Kim F. Storm]

Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden> writes:

> I like scrolling one line at a time. I have
> 
> (setq scroll-step 0
>       scroll-conservatively most-positive-fixnum)
> 
> on my .emacs because scroll-step's documentation recommends setting
> scroll-conservatively to "a large value" and most-positive-fixnum seems
> less arbitrary than 10000 or 65535 or whatever.
> 
> That used to work; now it doesn't (although I'm not sure it is because
> of a recent change or I just took a time to notice), because
> scroll-conservatively gets multiplied by FRAME_LINE_HEIGHT (f) in a
> couple of places, and that causes an overflow.

That change was made almost a year ago...

I changed some things related to scroll a few days ago which may have
made this more visible -- I don't know.

> So, if no one opposes, I'll install the attached patch.

Please install it.

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk