Re: [gedit-list] Usability request (and Lua syntax highlighting)

[Bjørn Lindeijer <b lindeijer xs4all nl>]

It scrolls by half pages for me, but I'd rather have it scroll by three 
lines or so. It would be nice to see this made into something configurable.

BTW, I wrote a Lua [1] syntax highlighting file for gtksourceview, and 
it's working nice with gEdit. I noticed this email is going to Paolo as 
well, one of that project's managers. It's not perfect, though. 
Continueing lines is still based on the Python highlighting and I'm not 
sure how Lua is really handling that. Keywords and comments should be fine.

Bye for now,
Bjorn

[1] http://www.lua.org/


Jon Lapham wrote:
> Hey folks, I'm curious if other have noticed this same usability issue. 
>  The scroll wheel on my mouse moves text in a gedit window by an entire 
> page for each "wheel position" (know what I mean?).
>
> I find this (and maybe only me?) difficult to use when scrolling up and 
> down a document, because since entire page changes with each wheel 
> position, there is no visual clue as to where you were before.
>
> In "nedit" (my old text editor that I am weaning myself off of) the 
> scroll wheel moved 10 lines per position.  So, you could "see" sections 
> move up and down and it seemed to me easier to follow.
>
> So, my question is, would there be any support for changing the scroll 
> wheel behavior in gedit to move by "half page" increments instead of 
> "whole page"?
>
> -Jon
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