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### 33.2 Scrolling Within a Message

When Rmail displays a message that does not fit on the screen, you must scroll through it to read the rest. You could do this with `C-v`, `M-v` and `M-<`, but in Rmail scrolling is so frequent that it deserves to be easier.

`SPC`

  Scroll forward (`scroll-up-command`).

`DEL`
`S-SPC`

  Scroll backward (`scroll-down-command`).

`.`

  Scroll to start of message (`rmail-beginning-of-message`).

`/`

  Scroll to end of message (`rmail-end-of-message`).

Since the most common thing to do while reading a message is to scroll through it by screenfuls, Rmail makes `SPC` and `DEL` (or `S-SPC`) do the same as `C-v` (`scroll-up-command`) and `M-v` (`scroll-down-command`) respectively.

The command `.` (`rmail-beginning-of-message`) scrolls back to the beginning of the selected message. This is not quite the same as `M-<`: for one thing, it does not set the mark; for another, it resets the buffer boundaries of the current message if you have changed them. Similarly, the command `/` (`rmail-end-of-message`) scrolls forward to the end of the selected message.