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Mouse Wheel Scroll Sensitivity, new preferences setting. #5341

Open gnat opened 2 years ago

gnat commented 2 years ago

Problem description

A multiplier to be used on the deltaX and deltaY of mouse wheel scroll events.

Screenshot from VSCodium

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Zed now has this feature as well.

Preferred solution

New preferences setting to set the multiplier.

Alternatives

None, realistically. Really bad experience to set this globally in the OS. A higher Sublime editor scroll sensitivity should not have to effect every other app on my system.

Additional Information

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BenjaminSchaaf commented 2 years ago

Is Sublime Text's scroll sensitivity different to that of other apps on your OS? If not what's the benefit to be gained from being inconsistent here? Note there are ways to set scroll sensitivity per-application, though it may require 3rd party software on some operating systems.

gnat commented 2 years ago

I very much insist on giving it a try for yourself in VSCodium- especially nice experience with Smooth Scrolling, which Sublime already has!

Use case: Some users, myself included, want the ability to scroll code faster than lets say, our web browsers. There are plenty of video games that ship a scrolling sensitivity variable (Example: those that use the mouse wheel for weapon switching).

It's a solid UX win for the addition of only one variable- multiply the number of lines scrolled by n?

Perspective: I love Sublime and happily pay for it (just re-upped my subscription last year actually with Sublime 4), but I'm being swayed more and more by VSCode / VSCodium. I want Sublime to stay competitive.

LaneSun commented 1 year ago

It's absolutely required, I use imwheel in Linux to make scrolling faster. However, it causes a lot of bugs in my system.

gnat commented 2 months ago

Zed now has this feature as well.