Re: The unwarranted scrolling assumption

[David De La Harpe Golden]

On 26/06/10 04:18, grischka wrote:
>  > I don't know if the value is on the exact same scale as the x11 value,
>  > but if so, note that 30 is a half to a third the speed I tend to use!
>
> I'd suggest to go to the top of some file, then look on your watch and
> hold the <down> key for 10 seconds. Then take the current line number
> and div by 10.

which works fine so long as the file is long enough...
Or you could just hold down a letter key or enter.

But it's documented to be cps in the xset manpage on x11 anyway, and is, 
or close enough. I can't test on windows.

Eli: in case you tried the previous registry suggestion and it didn't work:

The windows scale reportedly [1] stems from the PC "typematic" hardware 
autorepeat feature that takes a 5-bit parameter and maps 0 to 2 cps and 
31 to a mere 30 cps [2].

I assume x.org implements autorepeat in software, I've definitely been 
using a rate well above 30 cps for quite a while.

One of the comments on [1] suggests some accessibility thing called 
"filterkeys" may need to be active for windows to prefer software 
autorepeat and allow the higher sane-operating-system-like speeds, and 
gives a different registry key to mangle when it's on to get the speeds 
above the old 30 cps limit. [3]

[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2009/12/28/9941455.aspx
[2] 
http://perso.wanadoo.es/juanramon.villodas/AT%20Keyboard%20Interfacing.htm
[3] http://discuss.pcmag.com/forums/thread/1004407379.aspx
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Accessibility\Keyboard Response