Re: scroll-conservatively default

[Dan Nicolaescu]

address@hidden (Johan Bockgård) writes:

  > Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden> writes:
  > 
  > > Then please let's do this by default. The current default of 0 for 
  > > `scroll-conservatively' does not seem to be very helpful.
  > 
  > It does to me. I *like* Emacs's default scrolling behavior.

There are 2 things here:
1. Can you please explain why is it better to have scroll-conservatively
be non-zero?

2. Defaults should not be chosen based on what people that can write
their own .emacs like. They should be chosen but for the benefit of
people that do not have a .emacs. Emacs should try to be consistent with
the general accepted behavior of other applications. And only try to be
different after very careful consideration.