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From: <brianjiang@gdnt.com.cn>
To: <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: Why doesn't Emacs have a horizontal scroll bar?
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 20:52:20 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <63F95800EDD046419F17688AAFD41CCF01A912BB@rnd-ex01.rnd.gdnt.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u3b069bw1.fsf@gmail.com>

Thanks all.

I tried "scroll-left" and "scroll-right" today,  and found (scroll-left 1) and (scroll-right 1) [or "c-u 1 c-x <" and "c-u 1 c-x >] work for me (e.g., review the sdelta files). I think I will add quick key-bindings for them. 

But I still think a horizontal bar can be very useful. Maybe many emacs experts don't use mouse at all :) But for many people, mouse is very convenient for some tasks.

Also, I think "Truncate long lines in this buffer" is good enough too. It is not "word wrap". It truncate the words at any position (e.g., "words" can be truncate to "wo" in current line and "ords" in the next line.) It is really make the text difficult to read. Any solution for this? (auto-fill can wrap the text in a word basis, but 1). It doesn't wrap the word based on the window width, 2). It will modify the file while we don't want to change anything.)

Regards,
Brian 

-----Original Message-----
From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+brianjiang=gdnt.com.cn@gnu.org [mailto:help-gnu-emacs-bounces+brianjiang=gdnt.com.cn@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Mathias Dahl
Sent: 2007年7月3日 15:37
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why doesn't Emacs have a horizontal scroll bar?

<brianjiang@gdnt.com.cn> writes:

> Why doesn't Emacs have a horizontal scroll bar? 

Probably because noone needed it so much that he/she decided to implement it.

> Sometimes I have to use other editor to edit something just because 
> emacs has not horizontal scroll bar and it is not very convenient to 
> do some tasks.

When I started using Emacs I also thought I needed a horizontal scroll bar, but in reality I have never needed one. I either use `scroll-left' and `scroll-right' (I use the Ctrl + PageDown and Ctrl + Page Up keybindings) when text is truncated or I let the text be wrapped.

Have you tried `scroll-left' and `scroll-right'? Does it not work for you? If so, what are the use cases where you would need a horizontal scroll bar?
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-03 12:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.2963.1183391480.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-07-02 19:36 ` Why doesn't Emacs have a horizontal scroll bar? Johan Bockgård
2007-07-03  7:36 ` Mathias Dahl
2007-07-03 12:52   ` brianjiang [this message]
2007-07-03 16:01     ` Amy Templeton
2007-07-04  1:56       ` brianjiang
2007-07-07 17:03 ` thorne
2007-07-02  9:41 Save on losing focus in Emacs Tassilo Horn
2007-07-02 15:01 ` Why doesn't Emacs have a horizontal scroll bar? brianjiang
2007-07-02 15:58   ` Peter Dyballa
2007-07-02 16:25     ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-07-02 17:53       ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found]     ` <mailman.2967.1183393563.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-07-02 16:49       ` Pascal Bourguignon
2007-07-03 20:51         ` Dieter Wilhelm
     [not found]         ` <mailman.3029.1183495887.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-07-03 22:16           ` David Kastrup
2007-07-03 22:45             ` David Kastrup
2007-07-04  5:58             ` Dieter Wilhelm
     [not found]             ` <mailman.3044.1183528715.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-07-04 17:16               ` David Kastrup
2007-07-05  6:37         ` Andreas Röhler
2007-07-05  7:11         ` Gordon Beaton
2007-07-05  7:56           ` Peter Dyballa

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