Re: feature request: horizontal scroll bar

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Ulrich Scholz <d7@thispla.net>
> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 04:00:29 -0700 (PDT)
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> Am Montag, 16. Juli 2012 18:02:08 UTC+2 schrieb Eli Zaretskii:
> 
> > ??? What&#39;s wrong with automatic horizontal scrolling that Emacs
> > provides by default (and which kicks in as soon as you truncate-lines
> > to a non-nil value)?
> 
> Three things
> 
> 1) A horizontal scroll bar gives a visual feedback of where you are. I have 
> very wide files with empty spots.  You can get lost.
> 
> 2) Scroll bars allow to move the visual ara without moving the cursor.  (Ok, 
> that migth be achievable with keys, too.)
> 
> 3) Scroll bars are good for going far in large files. Well, 90% of navigation 
> consists of short distances in small files.  But for the remaining 10%, 
> scroll bars are much better.

You carefully snipped the part to which I was replying.  I didn't mean
to claim that auto-hscroll mode makes horizontal scroll bar
redundant.  I meant to say that it should be better than switching to
a different editor.