Scrollback mouse altscreen speed

[brxxlstxrs]

How make scrolling with mouse wheel faster, what I need to change for it?
(I set its in my patches.h:

#define SCROLLBACK_PATCH 1
#define SCROLLBACK_MOUSE_ALTSCREEN_PATCH 1

)

[bakkeby]

The mouse shortcuts / button bindings pass in an integer (.i) value of 1 to to the kscrollup and kscrolldown functions indicating that when using the mouse wheel the terminal should scroll one line up and one line down respectively.

st-flexipatch/config.def.h

Lines 358 to 360 in 34cd955

	#if SCROLLBACK_MOUSE_ALTSCREEN_PATCH
	{ XK_NO_MOD, Button4, kscrollup, {.i = 1}, 0, S_PRI },
	{ XK_NO_MOD, Button5, kscrolldown, {.i = 1}, 0, S_PRI },

If you change these to, e.g. {.i = 5}, then it will scroll five lines for every trigger of the scroll wheel.

[brxxlstxrs]

Oh huge thanks ❤️, also tell me, is it the right practice to delete the patches.h/config.h file before each build, changing only the def files?

[bakkeby]

The default patches and config files are what comes with the program. When you run make the first time then those will be copied to (your personal) patches.h and config.h files that you can customise to your liking.

That is the intention anyway. If you for some reason finds deleting those files and only changing the default files works better for you then there is by no means anything stopping you from doing it.

Another way to look at it is that if the intention was to exit the default configuration files and always delete the files before compiling then the underlying code files would just source the default configuration directly and not copy them beforehand.

A lot of people, including youtube content creators, will recommend deleting the config.h before compiling and exit the default config instead. This has to do with a misunderstanding of the relation between the default and the personal configuration file, and becoming confused about why patches only change the default configuration and not your personal one.

[brxxlstxrs]

Thank you again, such tips help newbies like me, flexipatch helped me consider the option of switching to dwm, using st and etc. (other suckless software), so on. YT content creators not always right with their ways of presenting information, but still they simplify a little sometimes
(btw use Arch, Gentoo will never be compiled)