Re: Emacs 23 scrollbar behavior

[Brendan Miller]

On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 3:21 AM, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@web.de> 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.