[Orgmode] Re: [OT-emacs] Scrolling horizontally

[Tassilo Horn]

Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Marcelo,

> The only way I've found was to actually go to the long line and press
> C-e, which is totally not what I would like :)

,----[ C-h f scroll-left RET ]
| scroll-left is an interactive built-in function in `C source code'.
| 
| It is bound to <C-next>, C-x <.
| 
| (scroll-left &optional ARG SET-MINIMUM)
| 
| Scroll selected window display ARG columns left.
| Default for ARG is window width minus 2.
| Value is the total amount of leftward horizontal scrolling in
| effect after the change.
| If SET-MINIMUM is non-nil, the new scroll amount becomes the
| lower bound for automatic scrolling, i.e. automatic scrolling
| will not scroll a window to a column less than the value returned
| by this function.  This happens in an interactive call.
`----

,----[ C-h f scroll-right RET ]
| scroll-right is an interactive built-in function in `C source code'.
| 
| It is bound to <C-prior>, C-x >.
| 
| (scroll-right &optional ARG SET-MINIMUM)
| 
| Scroll selected window display ARG columns right.
| Default for ARG is window width minus 2.
| Value is the total amount of leftward horizontal scrolling in
| effect after the change.
| If SET-MINIMUM is non-nil, the new scroll amount becomes the
| lower bound for automatic scrolling, i.e. automatic scrolling
| will not scroll a window to a column less than the value returned
| by this function.  This happens in an interactive call.
`----

As you can read, those scroll about one window width by default.  If you
want to have a more "smooth" horizontal scroll experience, you could
wrap two custum commands around that call the default functions with a
sufficiently small ARG.

Bye,
Tassilo