Adam Sjøgren wrote: AFAICT, it's fundamental. XEmacs operates in terms of lines and columns, and an image is a single line and column. It should be possible to modify the redisplay/scrolling code to make it easier to scroll by pixels rather than lines, but you aren't going to be able to get around the fact that "point" can only move by whole lines. VM works around the issue by splitting images into strips: `vm-mime-use-image-strips' is a variable declared in Lisp. -- loaded from "vm-vars" Value: nil Documentation: *Non-nil means chop an image into horizontal strip for display. Emacs treats a displayed image as a single large character and cannot scroll vertically within an image. To work around this limitation VM can display an image as a series of contiguous horizontal strips that Emacs' scrolling routines can better handle. To do this VM needs to have the ImageMagick programs 'convert' and 'identify' installed; `vm-imagemagick-convert-program' and `vm-imagemagick-identify-program must point to them. A nil value means VM should display images without cutting them into strips. There are things which would make VM's approach simpler, e.g. being able to create a glyph from a rectangular subregion of an image would eliminate the need to use ImageMagick to slice the image. -- Glynn Clements <glynn(a)gclements.plus.com&gt; _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta