Horizontal Scroll bar and linum

Horizontal Scroll bar and linum

[brianjiang]

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Horizontal Scroll bar and linum are two basic features that most of
editors have but are missing in GNU Emacs. I think many people like
these two features very much. Now we already have linum.el for the line
number feature and work quite well. And can somebody can also provide a
patch to add the Horizontal scroll bar (or maybe port this feature from
XEmacs?). 

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Re: Horizontal Scroll bar and linum

[David Kastrup]

<brianjiang@gdnt.com.cn> writes:

> Horizontal Scroll bar and linum are two basic features that most of
> editors have but are missing in GNU Emacs. I think many people like
> these two features very much. Now we already have linum.el for the
> line number feature and work quite well. And can somebody can also
> provide a patch to add the Horizontal scroll bar (or maybe port this
> feature from XEmacs?).

Actually, I think we should first get vertical scroll bars (and
scroll-up/scroll-down) to get a reasonably good job at providing a
smooth scroll experience in the presence of tall lines/images.

While we are at the point where there is some sort of guarantee to go
in the general intended direction (there had been looping a lot in
Emacs 21), the amounts of scrolling are somewhat hard to control.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

Re: Horizontal Scroll bar and linum

[Stefan Monnier]

> Actually, I think we should first get vertical scroll bars (and
> scroll-up/scroll-down) to get a reasonably good job at providing a
> smooth scroll experience in the presence of tall lines/images.

First we should get it to do a good job for normal plain text.  That works
OK in Lucid toolkit, but the Gtk scrollbar behaves horribly when you reach
the end of the buffer.

I'd much better have a weirdly-positioned-and/or-sized thumb while
drag-scrolling, then the stuttering I see now.


        Stefan