[OS X Emacs] Aquamacs 2.0 annoyance

Sebastjan Trepca trepca at gmail.com
Tue May 11 17:18:18 EDT 2010


I can confirm all these annoyances on my laptop too. I have another
one though, menubar is completely gone, there is not options, views
etc, just one menu item "Aquamacs". Did you remove it from 2.0 or am I
missing something?

Cheers,

Sebastjan



On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:40 PM, Robert Morelli <morelli at flux.utah.edu> wrote:
> I find some of the ways Aquamacs 2.0 handles scrolling and minibuffer
> annoying.
>
> 1. When I scroll rapidly, say by spinning my mouse wheel, the text pane does
> not scroll smoothly. Instead, it does not respond for a second or two, then
> jerkily
> jumps to a few new locations on the way to its final destination, a little
> like a
> pebble skipping on the water. Aquamacs 1.x didn't have the smoothest
> scrolling
> either, but the problem is significantly worse in 2.0. I don't know of any
> other
> OS X application that behaves this way.
>
> The scrolling is also jerky when I drag the scrollbar.
>
> 2. A related problem is that the size of the vertical scrollbar changes as
> you
> scroll. It seems to be related to the density of visible text. Again,
> Aquamacs
> 1.x used to do this, but in a less exaggerated way. My understanding is that
> the scrollbar size should indicate how large the file is compared to the
> current
> view. Aquamacs seems to be using the number of characters on the screen as
> the measure of what's in view. That's quite unintuitive to me. Vertical
> scrolling
> is about lines, not about characters. Again, I don't know of any other OS X
> app
> that handles the scrollbar size this way.
>
> 3. When the mini-buffer updates, it causes the whole window to flash. The
> minibuffer
> seems to momentarily disappear, the vertical scrollbar extends all the way
> to the
> bottom of the window frame, then the minibuffer reappears with the new
> message
> and the scrollbar goes back. It's really quite irritating to see this.
>
> 4. When I'm scrolling down using the mouse wheel and I reach the end of the
> buffer,
> the minibuffer displays an "End of buffer" message repeatedly. This is
> particularly
> annoying because of the flashing that occurs when the minibuffer is updated.
> In
> Aquamacs 1.x, the message would be displayed only once. (Of course, it's
> similar
> when scrolling up and I reach the beginning of the buffer.)
>
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