From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Aberg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Features: Scroll wheel/ball, right bar Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 18:33:38 +0100 Message-ID: <03D46CE0-E961-471E-94AD-1695873A00C8@math.su.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1133890765 6833 80.91.229.2 (6 Dec 2005 17:39:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 17:39:25 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 06 18:39:24 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EjgjE-0001HR-Ve for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2005 18:35:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EjgjR-0006RN-2o for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2005 12:36:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EjghW-0005IE-6Z for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2005 12:34:02 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EjghV-0005Hg-2z for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2005 12:34:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EjghU-0005Hb-Gg for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2005 12:34:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [81.228.8.83] (helo=pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EjgiC-0003Um-4G for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2005 12:34:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [83.250.192.74] (83.250.192.74) by pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (7.2.060.1) (authenticated as u83812478) id 4394B8720003EE0E for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 6 Dec 2005 18:33:46 +0100 Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:14501 Archived-At: At least the GNU Bison list is used for feature suggestions, so here for Emacs: Under Mac OS X, I use a mouse with scroll wheel, and Apple now even has a mouse with a scroll ball, both which are used to scroll the frames within a window. When I now use emacs21, from Fink (under Mac OS 10.4.3), I feel somewhat hampered in not being able to do that. In the Mac OS X X11 X Window server, uxterm (and xterm), support scroll both in the frame and in the scroll-bar. In xman, scroll is supported only in the frame (not the scroll-bar). So it would be nice and help up user efficiency to have such a feature. In addition, uxterm has a -rightbar, which puts the scroll-bar to the right, which I am Mac user is used to. Now, I think that might even have a -bothbar option, putting a scroll-bar both left and right, as there is a principle that efficiency in work is inversely proportional to the time it takes to move the pointer to the area of action. One could then choose the bar that is closest to the pointer. Hans Aberg