Re: etc/TODO:Horizontal scrollbar

[Kim F. Storm]

Luc Teirlinck <address@hidden> writes:

> Frank Schmitt wrote:
> 
>    Perhaps like in XFig? Right-Click on scrollbar-area of the modeline
>    scrolls to the right, left-click to the left?
> 
> The most logical behavior for a horizontal scroll-bar would be
> analogous to the vertical one.  (Where there is the potential problem
> that that behavior seems to depend on the actual scroll-bar used.)
> 
> However, the problem is that the proposal is to use the modeline as
> the scroll-bar.  Hence unmodified mouse-1, 2 and 3 are off-limits since
> they are already bound (actually, already bound to too many things at
> once, for my taste).

There's another alternative to having the vertical scroll bar on
a line of its own:

What about splitting the existing modeline into two parts:  
        a scroll-bar part with a width equal to, say, 10 characters,
        a text part corresponding to the current mode line.

Something like this:

  | |
  | |
  |_|
  |v|
    |<|   ||    |>|-=?**  c.c    etc.  ----------


when the vertical scroll bar is at the left, and


                                              | |
                                              | |
                                              | |
                                              |_|
                                              |v|
  -=?**  c.c    etc.  ----------|<|   ||    |>|


when the vertical scroll bar is on the right.



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