mmc: I have generalized my smooth-scrolling patch (for rxvt). It's useful only in combination w/ a prepared (full-screen) application. I use it with elinks. Elinks redraws screen by pushing full page redrawing sequence(program). I enclose that program in between 2 escape sequences. They freeze/unfreeze the screen, so it is updated only when all is read. This is useful to avoid flicker due to clear-screen instruction (which is at the beginning of the page description program). But the closing sequence invokes my scroll-detector: a simple version of heckel algorithm. Once I detect a good candidate (number of lines) I update 3 regions (I broke rxvt_scr_refresh into several functions for this purpose)- above & below my scroll-region, and the scrolling region itself. Then I do the scoll in microsteps, using XCopyArea. I claim, that one can keep reading while scrolling.
mmc: There is still the bug http://maruska.dyndns.org/wiki/scrolling-bug and it would require a lot of work to fix, i think.
schmorp: as this has nothing to do with rxvt-unicode, couldn't you just join a forum appropriate for rxvt?
mmc: it has a lot to do w/ rxvt-unicode. Your C->C++ conversion obscures it, but still, for example
rxvt_scr_refresh is almost identical.
schmorp: thats bullshit, and you know it
schmorp: that function has been re-written from scratch except for a very small part
AJC_Z0: Fight! Fight!
schmorp AJC_Z0: if you have anything useful to say, do it. otherwise, just leave
mmc: schmorp: My "(I broke rxvt_scr_refresh into several functions for this purpose)" was in fact a hint for you that the f. is decomposable.
schmorp mmc: i don't care wether its "decomposable", but i do care when people spread fud (that is, knowingly)
schmorp mmc: if you want to communicate with me, do it on a reasonable basis
schmorp mmc: otherwise you will just lose the ability to communicate with me at all
schmorp mmc: a situation which has happene din the past with other people you talked to, so you certainly know what i mean
mmc: schmorp: I might relate it only to this my previous delusion: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/sawfish-list/2005-February/msg00032.html ... and Mikachu might see why submitting written patches (not writing them in itself) is not rewarding: authors can spit on your effort (give credit only as they like), since they keep the repository.
mmc: My announcement here was for hackers in here, which want to re-implement it for urxvt.
schmorp this makes no sense, as misinforming hackers will not help them
schmorp so your announcement was actually detrimental to the effect
schmorp but obviously, you don't understand the difference between facts and misinformation
mmc: I as a hacker don't want your protection against "misinformation".
schmorp: you probably don't need it, as you don't lie to yourself
schmorp: also, you are a troll, not a hacker, try to be more honest :)