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Thanks for the explanation and the link. This is exactly how I've always understood 'smooth scrolling' to mean. What I'm confused about is what exactly am I to

Thanks for the explanation and the link. This is exactly how I've always understood 'smooth scrolling' to mean. What I'm confused about is what exactly am I toggling when say I toggle the 'Use smooth scrolling' setting in Firefox, or the 'editor.smoothScrolling' setting in VSCode. I just never was able detect any difference. Maybe it's as you said, the effect is just very subtle.

baal80spam 3y ago
Scrolling feels completely different with smooth scrolling setting on and off, when you use mouse wheel to scroll. I always keep it off.
dark-star 3y ago
usually it changes how the scroll wheel behaves. it either scrolls in steps of n lines (n=1 or n=3 for example), bringing n "new" lines into view with every step. Or it scrolls more like in a browser or image editor, where is can also scroll by fractional lines (pixels essentially), which, of course, after the scroll looks the same but during scrolling it looks more "smooth"