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Asked: 2026-05-11T03:41:10+00:00

When I scroll in Emacs using mouse wheel, it scrolls 5 lines at a

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When I scroll in Emacs using mouse wheel, it scrolls 5 lines at a time, which, I think, is way too much – where do I set a new value?

Also, when I scroll in Emacs with a mouse (either wheel or scrollbar), the cursor jumps to stay inside the visible screen area – is there a way to override that behavior, making it staying on the line it was on, even when it goes out of screen? In other words, I don’t want the position where newly typed symbols appear changed by the scrolling.

Any alternative suggestion on how I could peek into some remote section of code and then quickly return to the former position is also welcome.

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  1. You can control the amount in variable mouse-wheel-scroll-amount (in mwheel.el).

    EDIT: E.g. Add (setq mouse-wheel-scroll-amount '(1 ((shift) . 1) ((control) . nil))) to your .emacs for 1 line at a time.

    I also have (setq mouse-wheel-progressive-speed nil) in my .emacs which I think is nicer behaviour.

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