From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Tak Kunihiro <tkk@misasa.okayama-u.ac.jp>
Cc: 26599@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26599: patch for mwheel.el
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 09:47:43 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83wpa5m3jk.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170428.081600.165500065.tkk@misasa.okayama-u.ac.jp> (message from Tak Kunihiro on Fri, 28 Apr 2017 08:16:00 +0900 (JST))
> Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 08:16:00 +0900 (JST)
> Cc: 26599@debbugs.gnu.org, tkk@misasa.okayama-u.ac.jp
> From: Tak Kunihiro <tkk@misasa.okayama-u.ac.jp>
>
> >> Keyboard is the primary scroll device. Thus I want to turn
> >> auto-hscroll-mode t by default.
> >>
> >> Occasionally I want to use mouse as scroll device. When I use mouse,
> >> I want to set turn auto-hscroll-mode nil, especially after
> >> implementation of <wheel-right> and <wheel-left>.
> >>
> >> When I come back to keyboard, I want to set auto-hscroll-mode t again.
> >
> > This looks like a very specialized use case, so I'm not sure we need a
> > solution for it in Emacs.
>
> I see how you see.
>
> How I described, is similar to how spreadsheet program reacts. It
> lets user scroll both by <wheel-left> and <left>.
>
> I very often edit a buffer with long and short line (for example,
> LaTeX table), using mouse and keyboard. However, as you infer, this
> can be already very special.
What makes this special is that you want Emacs to work differently
depending on the input device. Emacs normally makes a significant
effort in the other direction: to produce the same behavior no matter
where input came from.
I'm not sure we want to have such unusual behavior as part of Emacs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-28 6:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-22 1:27 bug#26599: patch for mwheel.el Tak Kunihiro
2017-04-22 7:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-23 6:13 ` Tak Kunihiro
2017-04-26 5:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-26 6:08 ` Tak Kunihiro
2017-04-26 10:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-26 12:32 ` Tak Kunihiro
2017-04-26 15:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-26 23:33 ` Tak Kunihiro
2017-04-27 2:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-27 5:27 ` Tak Kunihiro
2017-04-27 14:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-27 23:16 ` Tak Kunihiro
2017-04-28 6:47 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-04-28 9:12 ` Tak Kunihiro
2017-05-19 8:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-24 16:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-01-20 20:06 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-01-20 22:47 ` Juri Linkov
2020-01-21 7:17 ` Tak Kunihiro
2020-01-21 9:46 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-01-22 5:46 ` Tak Kunihiro
2020-03-13 23:43 ` Tak Kunihiro
2020-03-13 23:52 ` Tak Kunihiro
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