Re: Why doesn't Emacs have a horizontal scroll bar?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 05.07.2007 um 09:11 schrieb Gordon Beaton:

> On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:49:08 +0200, Pascal Bourguignon wrote:
> > But you don't need it to scroll!  Try:
>
> By that reasoning, why should emacs have vertical scroll bars when you
> can do M-v, C-v etc?

Because a *shell* buffer, for example, can be so large that the line  
counting in mode-line stops and then the shape of the scroll bar  
gives a hint where the cursor just might be ... And sometimes it can  
be useful to jump somewhere into the buffer by using the scroll bar  
when you know that no particularly unique text can be found there.

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  Pete

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