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Re: Strange Gnome-terminal behaviour

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On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 05:02:36PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> Recently, Gnome terminal's scrolling behaviour has gone strange. If I am
> looking at a man page, or scrolling through a long text file with less
> etc, or even just scrolling back through terminal history using
> Shift-PgUp and Shift-PgDn, it sometimes gets "stuck" and doesn't scroll.
> Then if I repeat the keystroke to scroll, it does it twice, skipping a
> screenful. This is particularly annoying for example in Mutt, where
> scrolling too far down a message causes Mutt to move to the next
> message. I end up missing the end of the message and have to go back a
> message to read it -- and then of course Mutt takes me back to the START
> of the previous message, so I have to scroll down again, and guess what,
> sod's law, it gets stuck in the same place... Picture the scene as I get
> steadily more irritated... 

I can't address the emulator's scrolling behavior in general, but in
specific to mutt, you can add:

set pager_stop = yes

to your .muttrc and that will stop the automatic flip to the next
message.  A nice work-a-round until the emulator issue is resolved,
anyway.

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Strange Gnome-terminal behaviour Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-09-24 10:10 +0200
  Re: Strange Gnome-terminal behaviour Dutch Ingraham <stoa@gmx.us> - 2016-09-24 10:30 +0200
    Re: Strange Gnome-terminal behaviour Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-09-24 16:20 +0200
      Re: Strange Gnome-terminal behaviour Dutch Ingraham <stoa@gmx.us> - 2016-09-24 16:30 +0200
        Re: Strange Gnome-terminal behaviour Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-09-24 16:30 +0200
          Re: Strange Gnome-terminal behaviour Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2016-09-24 18:40 +0200
            Re: Strange Gnome-terminal behaviour Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-09-25 16:30 +0200
            Re: Strange Gnome-terminal behaviour Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-09-25 17:10 +0200
              Re: Strange Gnome-terminal behaviour Dutch Ingraham <stoa@gmx.us> - 2016-09-25 18:00 +0200
              Re: Strange Gnome-terminal behaviour Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2016-09-25 22:10 +0200
                Re: Strange Gnome-terminal behaviour Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-10-07 14:50 +0200
                Re: Strange Gnome-terminal behaviour Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-10-07 15:00 +0200
                Re: Strange Gnome-terminal behaviour Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-07 17:10 +0200
                Re: Strange Gnome-terminal behaviour Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2016-10-08 02:10 +0200
  Re: Strange Gnome-terminal behaviour Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> - 2016-09-25 23:10 +0200

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