Re: pixel-scroll-precision-mode very slow on macOS with regular mouse wheel

[Aaron Jensen]

On Tue, Dec 7, 2021 at 11:38 PM Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Aaron Jensen <aaronjensen@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > The new pixel-scroll-precision-mode works very well with a trackpad.
> > When I use a regular mouse and its wheel on macOS, it is unusably
> > slow. Each scroll wheel tick is a single pixel. I use both a track pad
> > and a mouse regularly, so it would be nice to not have to switch the
> > mode on and off. Is it possible to tell the difference and scroll in
> > larger blocks when using the wheel?
> >
> > Aaron
>
> That is very odd: when precise deltas are not available, we use the
> estimate provided by macOS as part of `scrollingDeltaY' and
> `scrollingDeltaX', which should be more than one pixel.
>
> Alan, is my understanding of `scrollingDeltaY' correct?  Thanks.

macOS scrolling w/ a mouse wheel has acceleration. If I scroll slowly,
it goes very slowly, 1 tick is a couple pixels. If I scroll quickly I
can go through a whole page in a handful of ticks. Perhaps that
mechanic would need to be replicated?

Thanks,

Aaron