Re: Emacs 23 scrollbar behavior

[Brendan Miller <catphive@catphive.net>]

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?

I have my scrollbar on the right side (why the heck is this still not
the default?) if that effects it at all.

Is there any way to fix this?

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 2:37 AM, Ingo Strüwing <Ingo.Struewing@sun.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is there a way to configure the scrollbar behavior to match that of
> other X11 applications in emacs 23?
>
> Scrollbars of other applications behave like this: To scroll, one
> presses the left mouse button on the slider. Then one drags the mouse
> around. On release of the mouse button, the slider remains, where it was
> at button release time. Regardless if the mouse pointer is on the slider
> or not. A pre-existing selection is not affected.
>
> Emacs 23 (as it is configured for me now) behaves differently on button
> release:
>
> - If the mouse pointer is not on the slider, the slider jumps back to
> where it was when the drag started. That is, where it was when the mouse
> button was *pressed*. A pre-existing selection is not affected.
>
> - If the mouse pointer is (moved back) on the slider, the slider remains
> where it was at button release time. A pre-existing selection is
> replaced by the area that the scroll action moved over between button
> press and button release.
>
> Can I somehow configure the "normal" X11 behavior, which former versions
> of emacs used to follow too?
>
> Regards
> Ingo
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