From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: feature request: horizontal scroll bar
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:56:34 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83obne9ya5.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <806fde83-0685-44be-a28d-30eef6af252a@googlegroups.com>
> From: Ulrich Scholz <d7@thispla.net>
> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 04:00:29 -0700 (PDT)
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>
> Am Montag, 16. Juli 2012 18:02:08 UTC+2 schrieb Eli Zaretskii:
>
> > ??? What's wrong with automatic horizontal scrolling that Emacs
> > provides by default (and which kicks in as soon as you truncate-lines
> > to a non-nil value)?
>
> Three things
>
> 1) A horizontal scroll bar gives a visual feedback of where you are. I have very wide files with empty spots. You can get lost.
>
> 2) Scroll bars allow to move the visual ara without moving the cursor. (Ok, that migth be achievable with keys, too.)
>
> 3) Scroll bars are good for going far in large files. Well, 90% of navigation consists of short distances in small files. But for the remaining 10%, scroll bars are much better.
You carefully snipped the part to which I was replying. I didn't mean
to claim that auto-hscroll mode makes horizontal scroll bar
redundant. I meant to say that it should be better than switching to
a different editor.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-17 15:56 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
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 [this message]
[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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