Re: emacs scrolls too fast when mouse-dragging selection

[Kai Grossjohann]

nospam55 <nospa@no.yahoo.no> writes:

> I click and drag down with the mouse on the window to extend
> selection: when I reach the top margin of the window then the text
> in the window scrolls upwards in order to make visible new text down
> ; all of this is normal behavior, of course; the problem is that
> right after the first lines , the scrolling becomes suddenly too
> fast to control, and I "crash" quickly on the end of file, almost
> always far too down for the amount of text I wanted to select.

Does it help to frob the variable mouse-scroll-delay?

Does it help to frob scroll-conservatively?  (My understanding is you
need to give it a high value, but I'm not sure.)

Kai