Re: Emacs 23 scrollbar behavior

[Peter Dyballa]

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!

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