Smooth Scroll Behavior

[strickinato]

First, a few notes. This is incredibly exciting software, I'd been fantasizing about something like it. I saw it on lobste.rs and immediately took it for a spin.

My current browser setup is chrome with vimium. They've implemented smooth scrolling that is really nice.

Because I've grown accustomed to it, the scroll jumping that happens inside of glide proved very jarring for me. Would you be open or interested in having similar behavior in glide. After all, the name is glide 😄

Congrats on the launch 🎉

[RobertCraigie]

Thanks for the kind words and the feature request!

Yeah I'd be open to supporting smooth scrolling :)

To be honest I think the scrolling implementation needs a lot of work anyway, I've ran into lots of issues where it just wouldn't scroll at all.

My current browser setup is chrome with vimium. They've implemented smooth scrolling that is really nice.

Thanks for the link! That does indeed look like it'd be quite nice.

[RobertCraigie]

In case its helpful, you can enable smooth scrolling with this config:

glide.keymaps.set("normal", "h", "keys <left>");
glide.keymaps.set("normal", "l", "keys <right>");
glide.keymaps.set("normal", "j", "keys <down>");
glide.keymaps.set("normal", "k", "keys <up>");
glide.keymaps.set(["insert", "normal"], "<C-d>", "keys <pagedown>");
glide.keymaps.set(["normal", "insert"], "<C-u>", "keys <pageup>");

As this just delegates the operations to Firefox's default implementations for scrolling.

This also depends on having the general.smoothScroll preference set to true, which is the default.

[RobertCraigie]

Smooth scrolling is now the default in 0.1.54a!

If you set the keymaps I mentioned above I'd recommend removing them, the core implementation handles edge cases that the keys version doesn't :)