From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas =?iso-8859-1?q?R=F6hler?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why doesn't Emacs have a horizontal scroll bar? Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 08:37:03 +0200 Message-ID: <200707050837.04188.andreas.roehler@online.de> References: <63F95800EDD046419F17688AAFD41CCF01A90F5C@rnd-ex01.rnd.gdnt.local> <873b06n43f.fsf@informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1183616960 18698 80.91.229.12 (5 Jul 2007 06:29:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 06:29:20 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 05 08:29:18 2007 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I6Kq5-0006i2-QA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jul 2007 08:29:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I6Kq4-0007pd-Qv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jul 2007 02:29:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I6Kpp-0007pP-Ls for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jul 2007 02:29:01 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I6Kpn-0007p5-Vq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jul 2007 02:29:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I6Kpn-0007p2-Pr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jul 2007 02:28:59 -0400 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.177]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I6Kpn-0008Bs-Ao for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jul 2007 02:28:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [84.190.189.86] (helo=karton) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu0) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0MKwh2-1I6Kpj0RDJ-0004Lx; Thu, 05 Jul 2007 08:28:57 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 In-Reply-To: <873b06n43f.fsf@informatimago.com> Content-Disposition: inline X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/H5XiEiD/YdoWlWOIZmtZQnAPk18ee8hKwR+6 qEbBtWLhlADVyAM8klpcQz+7SHqMVuaEfhGzMRnPLcZ4pX2Z4L QyKu865sXL1gzja5ZgAaw== X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:45475 Archived-At: Am Montag, 2. Juli 2007 18:49 schrieb Pascal Bourguignon: > "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" writes: > > Peter Dyballa wrote: > >> Am 02.07.2007 um 17:01 schrieb : > >>> Why doesn't Emacs have a horizontal scroll bar? > >> > >> Because text is either truncated or broken into the next line. Or am > >> I missing something? > > > > Maybe that a horizontal scroll bar would be useful when the text is > > truncated? ;-) > > But you don't need it to scroll! Try: > > C-u 20 C-x < > C-u 20 C-x > > > > Here is the first form I have in by ~/.emacs: > > (mapcar (lambda (f) (when (fboundp f) (funcall f -1))) > '(scroll-bar-mode menu-bar-mode tool-bar-mode)) > > ; yes, I've got it even before (require 'cl) Thanks a lot for the tip. Searching the web with Emacs-w3m, mouse-navigation at least is an alternative, because it jumps large portions precisely: then a horizontal scroll would be helpful too. Andreas Roehler