From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r99650: Put scroll-bar on right by default on UNIX. Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:42:04 -0500 Message-ID: <878w9v1k1v.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87ocitw2dl.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <83pr371rl2.fsf@gnu.org> <873a03pmgn.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87d3z7pfwc.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1268548953 26235 80.91.229.12 (14 Mar 2010 06:42:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 06:42:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , rms@gnu.org, cloos@jhcloos.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 14 07:42:28 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NqhWp-0000UQ-Rj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Mar 2010 07:42:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33155 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NqhWp-0003nJ-42 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:42:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NqhWi-0003m7-7s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:42:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=35942 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NqhWg-0003kE-3j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:42:15 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NqhWb-0003ry-Ek for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:42:14 -0500 Original-Received: from pantheon-po25.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.119]:37859) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NqhWX-0003rB-6u; Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:42:05 -0500 Original-Received: from furry (adsl-99-58-201-129.dsl.wlfrct.sbcglobal.net [99.58.201.129]) (authenticated bits=0) by pantheon-po25.its.yale.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id o2E6g4ap026116 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:42:04 -0500 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 86D27C011; Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:42:04 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87d3z7pfwc.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:37:55 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.94 (gnu/linux) X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.2c (attachment(s) not renamed) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:121941 Archived-At: Chong Yidong writes: > Miles Bader writes: > >> Eli Zaretskii writes: >>> The problem is with how ``convenient'' is decided. I suspect most >>> users nowadays will say that having the scroll bar on the right is the >>> most ``convenient''. >> >> They may, but I suspect they can't actually say why... > > http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~dixa/papers/scrollbar/ Also http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~dixa/papers/scrollbar/scrollbar2.html