Re: Emacs 23 scrollbar behavior

["Ingo Strüwing" <Ingo.Struewing@Sun.COM>]

Hi Peter,

Peter Dyballa, 12.03.2010 16:11:

> 
> Am 12.03.2010 um 11:37 schrieb Ingo Strüwing:
> 
>> is there a way to configure the scrollbar behavior to match that of
>> other X11 applications in emacs 23?
> 
> Compile it with GTK support!


thank you for the suggestion. But what I have is:

GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.18.3)
 of 2009-11-10 on crested, modified by Debian

This is on Ubuntu 9.10. It claims to have GTK support.

> 
>>
>> Scrollbars of other applications behave like this: To scroll, one
>> presses the left mouse button on the slider. Then one drags the mouse
>> around. On release of the mouse button, the slider remains, where it was
>> at button release time. Regardless if the mouse pointer is on the slider
>> or not. A pre-existing selection is not affected.
> 
> You do not have a mouse with a scroll-wheel? That's much easier, because
> you don't need to move the mouse to the slider in the scroll-bar.


I have a mouse with a scroll-wheel. An I use it a lot. But often I have
to skip more than a few lines. Moving a quarter of a 4000 lines source
file means to move 1000 lines. I use to do that with the scroll bar,
rather than with a hundred wheel turns.

> 
>> Can I somehow configure the "normal" X11 behavior, which former versions
>> of emacs used to follow too?
> 
> 
> Invoke
> 
>     ./configure --help
> 
> and see all options!

I'm lazy and use to use packages from the distribution. But if you can
confirm that building from source fixes my problem, I'll do that.

Thanks and Regards
Ingo
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