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

[David Kastrup]

Richard Riley <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> James Cloos <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
>>>> C> Put scroll-bar on right by default on UNIX.
>>>>
>>>> Ewww.  Why, if may I ask?
>>>>
>>>> Way over on the right makes the scrollbar essentially useless (except,
>>>> of course, for putative buffers which are (will be) primarily r2l
>>>> and those times when the frame is split horizontally).
>>>>
>>>> It really needs to be near the action, and on landscape displays the
>>>> frames are typically wider than (most of) the text.
>>>
>>> I'm familiar with the advantages, but this battle was fought long ago.
>>
>> Emacs is not occupied territory.  Where it makes no sense, following the
>> herd is not necessary.
>>
>>> Every graphical user interface created in the last X years puts the
>>> scroll bar on the right.
>>
>> Emacs is not a graphical display application, but an input text oriented
>> system.  JFTR, xterm has its scrollbar on the _left_.
>
> How silly.
>
> I, and most users I suspect, would want the scrollbar on the GUI
> version in the same place as the HUGE majority for GUI "X"
> applications. On the right.
>
> xterm is not a "GUI application" in any but the most pedantic minds.

Neither is Emacs.  Both are focused about plain text input.

-- 
David Kastrup