From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Brendan Miller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs 23 scrollbar behavior Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:05:31 -0800 Message-ID: References: <4B9A1954.3090000@sun.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1268514391 10555 80.91.229.12 (13 Mar 2010 21:06:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:06:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Peter Dyballa Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 13 22:06:27 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 1NqYX3-0001DX-1L for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:06:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58155 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NqYX2-0003TL-54 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:06:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NqYWd-0003SX-1K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:05:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=38014 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NqYWb-0003RE-Mo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:05:34 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NqYWa-0004mV-C1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:05:33 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-pz0-f182.google.com ([209.85.222.182]:56431) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NqYWa-0004mL-60 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:05:32 -0500 Original-Received: by pzk12 with SMTP id 12so1486641pzk.14 for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:05:31 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.142.59.7 with SMTP id h7mr3888690wfa.267.1268514331228; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:05:31 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:72425 Archived-At: On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 3:21 AM, Peter Dyballa wrote: > > 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. There's no need to be rude... and in any case I was talking about the *defaults* for GTK emacs not being set to match all the other GTK apps, not asking anyone to chop their arm off. Yes, I've changed the config on *my* setup.