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From: Ulrich Scholz <d7@thispla.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: feature request: horizontal scroll bar
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 04:00:29 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <806fde83-0685-44be-a28d-30eef6af252a@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.4890.1342454575.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>

Am Montag, 16. Juli 2012 18:02:08 UTC+2 schrieb Eli Zaretskii:

> ??? What&#39;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.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-07-17 11:00 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 [this message]
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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