Let /tmp/scroll-conservatively-1.el have this content:<br><br>  (setq scroll-conservatively 1)<br>  (add-hook &#39;term-setup-hook (lambda () (goto-char (point-max))))<br><br>And /tmp/foo.cpp as attached.<br><br>Also set the keyboard repitition rate somewhat high.<br>
<br>Start Emacs by: emacs -Q /tmp/foo.cpp --load /tmp/scroll-conservatively-1.el<br><br>Hold arrow up key, recentering occurs while scrolling up.<br><br>Note: Script goes to EOB because I only witness this for scroll ups, not scroll downs.<br>
<br>I witness this regularly when navigating C++ source code.<br><br>----<br><br>In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.6 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.10.4)<br> of 2013-05-23 on redacted<br>Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation&#39;, version 11.0.70101000<br>
System Description:    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client release 5.4 (Tikanga)<br><br>Configured using:<br> `configure --prefix=/redacted/user/boreilly/sw/emacs-install-trunk<br> --with-gif=no&#39;<br><br>Important settings:<br>
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8<br>  value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=none<br>  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix<br>  default enable-multibyte-characters: t<br><br>Major mode: C++/l<br><br>Minor modes in effect:<br>  tooltip-mode: t<br>
  mouse-wheel-mode: t<br>  tool-bar-mode: t<br>  menu-bar-mode: t<br>  file-name-shadow-mode: t<br>  global-font-lock-mode: t<br>  font-lock-mode: t<br>  blink-cursor-mode: t<br>  auto-composition-mode: t<br>  auto-encryption-mode: t<br>
  auto-compression-mode: t<br>  line-number-mode: t<br>  transient-mark-mode: t<br>  abbrev-mode: t<br><br>Recent input:<br>M-x r e p o r t - e m a c &lt;tab&gt; &lt;return&gt;<br><br>Recent messages:<br>For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.<br>
foo.cpp has auto save data; consider M-x recover-this-file<br>Loading cc-langs...done<br><br>Load-path shadows:<br>None found.<br><br>Features:<br>(shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr emacsbug message cl-macs gv format-spec<br>
rfc822 mml mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231<br>mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums<br>mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils cc-langs cl nadvice cl-lib cc-mode<br>cc-fonts easymenu cc-guess cc-menus cc-cmds cc-styles cc-align cc-engine<br>
cc-vars cc-defs time-date tooltip ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type<br>mwheel x-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe<br>tabulated-list newcomment lisp-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow<br>timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu<br>
font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan<br>thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech<br>european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook<br>jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer loaddefs button faces<br>
cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format<br>env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote<br>make-network-process dbusbind dynamic-setting system-font-setting<br>font-render-setting move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty emacs)<br>
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