Re: scroll-conservatively default

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

  >     But some other things have evolved and have been
  >     "standardized" in a different way, and we should seriously consider
  >     changing the defaults to match what other applications are doing.
  > 
  > We can consider such changes, but we change Emacs merely to follow
  > other programs only if there is no disadvantage.

Agreed.
I have personally heard complaints from users about the emacs scrolling
behavior which is different

So here are 2 proposals to change this, please consider them
independently:

1. set scroll-conservatively to some non-zero number by default

2. set scroll-preserve-screen-position to non-nil by default.