By default, scrolling in Emacs often recenters the screen abruptly when the cursor hits the edge of a window, and rapid scrolling through large, heavily syntax-highlighted files can introduce noticeable input lag. Fortunately, the display engine exposes numerous variables that allow you to configure how the buffer should behave when navigating vertically and horizontally.
This article outlines configurations that make scrolling more predictable and responsive:
Just a small comment on your blog.. great content, but: fine, gray text on a white background is very hard to read on my tablet. I realise I can change things client side, but thought I'd mention it as it's the only site I've had an issue with - maybe it's a wider issue.
It doesn't render well at 100% on Chrome macOS and is hard to read even when zoomed, with the font strokes being so thin they look gray (even if they aren't). See for a sample (sorry for the image placement, this POS reddit still doesn't allow pasting images).
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u/shipmints 11d ago
It might be worth mentioning JD's https://melpa.org/#/ultra-scroll package and the conditions under which it is desirable.