`pdf-view-roll-minor-mode` - Continuous Scroll Mode

This release brings a highly requested feature that has been maintained as a parallel fork for years by @aikrahguzar : continuous scrolling through PDFs with multiple pages visible simultaneously.

New functionality to improve overall user experience

Add pdf-view-roll-minor-mode for continuous scrolling @aikrahguzar and others #224

This feature enables smooth, continuous scrolling through PDF documents. Enable with M-x pdf-view-roll-minor-mode.

• Smooth pixel-level scrolling across page boundaries
• Multiple pages visible at once in tall windows
• Works with pixel-scroll-precision-mode for trackpad scrolling
• Configurable page margins via pdf-roll-vertical-margin and pdf-roll-margin-color
• Closes: #18
• Closes: #104

Add pdf-annot-edit command for avy-style annotation editing @dalanicolai #224

Press e in pdf-annot-list-mode or use M-x pdf-annot-edit to quickly select and edit annotations using keyboard labels.

Functionality improvements and fixes

• Isearch now searches across all visible pages in roll mode #224
  • When pdf-view-roll-minor-mode is active, isearch highlights matches on all displayed pages simultaneously.

API changes (for package developers)

• pdf-view-active-region now returns page information
  • The region format includes the page number for multi-page awareness.
• pdf-isearch-hl-matches signature changed
  • Now accepts a list of pages parameter for multi-page highlighting.

⚠️ Experimental Feature

The continuous scroll mode is marked as experimental. While it works well in testing, please report any issues you encounter.