From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Klaus Berndl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: scroll-left question Date: 07 Nov 2002 18:48:12 +0100 Organization: sd&m AG, Muenchen, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87k7jplgfg.fsf@fbigm.here> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1036692130 10177 80.91.224.249 (7 Nov 2002 18:02:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 18:02:10 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 189qyn-0002dz-00 for ; Thu, 07 Nov 2002 19:02:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 189qzm-00046U-00; Thu, 07 Nov 2002 13:03:10 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.esat.net!lnewspeer01.lnd.ops.eu.uu.net!emea.uu.net!news.sdm.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 54 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: sachrang.muc.sdm.de Original-X-Trace: solti3.muc.sdm.de 1036691292 17263 193.102.181.147 (7 Nov 2002 17:48:12 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.sdm.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 7 Nov 2002 17:48:12 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:106818 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:3372 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:3372 On 07 Nov 2002, Friedrich Dominicus wrote: > Klaus Berndl writes: > > > On 07 Nov 2002, Klaus Berndl wrote: > > > > > > > > What can be the reason(s) for the following (IMHO mysterious) behavior: > > > > > > If i call interactively scroll-left (means by hitting C-x <) then all > > > is working fine, i.e. window/buffer is scrolled horiz. > The reasons seems to be obvious for me. C-x < runs in the current buffer. > > > > > > > But if i call it from program (simulated by doing M-: (scroll-left) > > > RET) then nothing happens. > Well that runs in the minibuffer, how should it scroll another window? Definitely not. Even tried: ,---- | (save-selected-window | (select-window (get-buffer-window | (get-buffer "buffer/window-to-scroll"))) | (scroll-left 5)) `---- which operates definitively in the right window but same effect, means NO effect, means NO scrolling to left! > > > > > > > > And even more mysteriously this behavior is only true for some windows > > > but for other windows not, i.e. in some windows the behavior is > > > identical regardless if C-x < or M-: (scroll-left) RET... > Well this is *really* strange, and I do not have any explanation for > that. IMHO the above is strange too! Ciao, Klaus -- Klaus Berndl mailto: klaus.berndl@sdm.de sd&m AG http://www.sdm.de software design & management Thomas-Dehler-Str. 27, 81737 München, Germany Tel +49 89 63812-392, Fax -220