From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ulrich Scholz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: feature request: horizontal scroll bar Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 04:00:29 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <806fde83-0685-44be-a28d-30eef6af252a@googlegroups.com> References: <64fa8a68-d45d-4b55-82bc-54aa9ef1cfef@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1342523414 28755 80.91.229.3 (17 Jul 2012 11:10:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:10:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 17 13:10:14 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Sr5fR-0007fj-IH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:10:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52030 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sr5fQ-0006F8-EX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 07:10:12 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 13 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.156.183.195 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1342523238 18753 127.0.0.1 (17 Jul 2012 11:07:18 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:07:18 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=62.156.183.195; posting-account=6nLwcwoAAACyuDWy5iNg9hYCXPlbqduH User-Agent: G2/1.0 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:193521 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:85900 Archived-At: 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.