Subject: screen scroll size

From: [email-masked] (Randy A. Scott)
Date: 1 Dec 1994 07:58:10 GMT

When you hit space when reading a message in PINE, it gives you the next
screenful.  However the last two lines of the previous screen become the
first two lines of the new screen.  I know most people like this effect
because it lends to continuity, but it drives me crazy.  I invariably
start reading the first line expecting to be getting new information.  I
don't care for the "deja vu all over again" effect.

Is there a setting for this in 3.91?  I couldn't find one.  I'm not keen
on recompiling it for this one nit.

ras

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From: Ed Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 1994 18:27:23 -0800 (GMT)

> on recompiling it for this one nit.

	Sorry to tell you....it is a compile time setting....

	In os.h  

/*----------------------------------------------------------------------
 In scrolling through text, the number of lines from the previous
 screen to overlap when showing the next screen.  Usually set to two.
 ----*/
#define OVERLAP         (2)

					Ed

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