Re: Side scrolling [was Re: LYNX-DEV Re: Setting up a fund ...]

[T.E.Dickey]

> 
> On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Nelson Henry Eric wrote:
> >If it's major use were to be for tables (of course were're talking here
> >of after the release), I think I personally would like the _jump_ to the
> >right, as long as there were a check to not break a column of the table.
> >Speed would be much more desirable than character-by-character "scrolling".
> 
> Yeah, yikes, I didn't realize anyone was considering character by character
> scrolling.
> 
> Since this is for tables, I guess I'd expect it to scroll over enough to
> show all new tables _except_ the last one shown..  i.e. you scroll to the
then I'd call that a left/right shift (you might call it a jump scroll ;-)
most people do this either in half-screen-widths, or thirds.

> right, and now the column that was on the rightmost of the screen is on the
> leftmost of the screen..  (Special consideration has to be made if it's 
> possible for a column to be _wider_ than the whole screen..)
> 


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