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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz@gnu.org>, <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Cc: raul@cantara.com
Subject: RE: feature request: horizontal scroll bar
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 10:05:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <668D04A9A01C45DC8E55BB7C90C7AA66@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83394rbqhi.fsf@gnu.org>

> > > > Is there any hope with this issue?
> > >
> > > I suggest to file a feature request with the Emacs bug tracker.
> > 
> > You mean like this one, submitted a couple of years ago?
> > http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=5853
> > 
> > The submitter, an Emacs user since 1982 (that's 30 years!), 
> > even offered to pay for the feature.
> > 
> > That request got no reply at all, beyond being relegated to 
> > the wishlist (aka /dev/null) two days later.
> > 
> > This info might be pertinent to Ulrich's "any hope" question.
> 
> Maybe telling how much money is in this could make a difference.

Go ahead and ask him how much he's offering.  You can be the first to reply to
his feature request, two years later.  He might be happy to know that someone
read his suggestion.




  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-16 17:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-16 11:38 feature request: horizontal scroll bar Ulrich Scholz
2012-07-16 16:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-07-16 16:21   ` Drew Adams
2012-07-16 16:49     ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-07-16 17:05       ` Drew Adams [this message]
2012-07-16 18:20         ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <mailman.4890.1342454575.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-07-17 10:01   ` Ulrich Scholz
2012-07-17 11:00   ` Ulrich Scholz
2012-07-17 15:56     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]   ` <mailman.4984.1342540441.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-07-18 12:09     ` Michael Heerdegen
2012-07-18 15:35       ` Tom
     [not found]       ` <mailman.5090.1342625784.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-07-19 11:37         ` hjuvi
2012-07-19 12:42           ` Peter Dyballa

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