From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs 23 scrollbar behavior Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:21:57 +0100 Message-ID: References: <4B9A1954.3090000@sun.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1268480204 2041 80.91.229.12 (13 Mar 2010 11:36:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:36:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ingo_Str=FCwing?= , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Brendan Miller Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 13 12:36:40 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NqPe3-0005Ud-Pk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:36:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33989 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NqPe2-0006al-UB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:36:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NqPPx-00051a-3I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:22:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=52724 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NqPPu-0004z6-IY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:22:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NqPPt-00059o-5E for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:22:02 -0500 Original-Received: from fmmailgate03.web.de ([217.72.192.234]:35233) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NqPPs-00059g-UZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:22:01 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp07.web.de (fmsmtp07.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.5.215]) by fmmailgate03.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D2881441B169; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:21:59 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [91.35.166.195] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtp07.web.de with asmtp (WEB.DE 4.110 #314) id 1NqPPr-0004GB-00; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:21:59 +0100 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) X-Sender: Peter_Dyballa@web.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19eqGC+KLl3+FRqkh9mJAK1mRbF/hCvSI5+Td7w f42sO0ojySGeA5aMt3cHYOobZMDeXHTbrtk6rlp5gE3QIAg29F 3QkOdgh+wQM3bKzE/FJg== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:72409 Archived-At: Am 13.03.2010 um 02:13 schrieb Brendan Miller: > I'm also having trouble as well with gtk emacs 23.1.1 where if I > scroll by dragging the scroll bar, it sometimes selects a bunch of > text... Sounds like the same problem? No, that's something completely different. You might be able to track down the reason by typing C-h l (invoking the function view-lossage) and examining the key presses and mouse events recorded in the *Help* buffer. > > I have my scrollbar on the right side (why the heck is this still not > the default?) if that effects it at all. Because some people have two arms. And some have a functioning hand at the open end of the left arm. And there are windowing systems... > > Is there any way to fix this? See the variable vertical-scroll-bar! -- Greetings Pete Think of XML as Lisp for COBOL programmers. - Tony-A (some guy on /.)