Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r99650: Put scroll-bar on right by default on UNIX.

[Miles Bader]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> The problem is with how ``convenient'' is decided.  I suspect most
> users nowadays will say that having the scroll bar on the right is the
> most ``convenient''. 

They may, but I suspect they can't actually say why...

The Emacs' position, whether one agrees with it or not, is actually
based on some reasoning.

[Thank god at least some of the hoary old artifacts of the original
macintosh GUI have been revised in recent years, e.g. fixed-size scroll
thumbs!]

-Miles

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