From: Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: TUTORIAL and scroll bar
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 16:07:44 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <buo64h2qtdr.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85lkpy75zd.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Wed, 09 Aug 2006 08:55:50 +0200")
David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
> I find this strange: after all, the usual setting for almost all
> applications (including those on X) is on the right, so the case for
> Windows does not seem to be different here.
A lot of "traditional" applications (e.g. xterm, xedit) use left-side
scroll-bars by default (not arbitrarily -- there's some thinking as to
why left-side scrollbars are better); more recent ones seem to often use
right-side sbs, probably because of the mac/windows influence.
-Miles
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-09 7:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-08 23:39 TUTORIAL and scroll bar Richard Stallman
2006-08-09 3:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-09 3:36 ` Chong Yidong
2006-08-09 6:33 ` Romain Francoise
2006-08-09 19:16 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-10 6:28 ` Jan Djärv
2006-08-10 6:41 ` Miles Bader
2006-08-10 7:21 ` Jan Djärv
2006-08-10 7:27 ` David Kastrup
2006-08-10 6:49 ` David Kastrup
2006-08-09 6:55 ` David Kastrup
2006-08-09 7:07 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2006-08-09 7:14 ` David Kastrup
2006-08-09 10:00 ` Yavor Doganov
2006-08-10 1:13 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-09 19:16 ` Richard Stallman
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