Re: Why doesn't Emacs have a horizontal scroll bar?

[Pascal Bourguignon]

"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:

> Peter Dyballa wrote:
>> Am 02.07.2007 um 17:01 schrieb <brianjiang@gdnt.com.cn>:
>> 
>>> Why doesn't Emacs have a horizontal scroll bar?
>> Because text is either truncated or broken into the next line. Or am
>> I missing something?
>
>
> Maybe that a horizontal scroll bar would be useful when the text is
> truncated? ;-)

But you don't need it to scroll!  Try: 

C-u 20 C-x <
C-u 20 C-x >


Here is the first form I have in by ~/.emacs:

(mapcar (lambda (f) (when (fboundp f) (funcall f -1)))
        '(scroll-bar-mode menu-bar-mode tool-bar-mode))

; yes, I've got it even before (require 'cl)



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