Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!acorn!ixi!paul From: pd@ixi.uucp (Paul Davey) Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: Wanted - An Editor Which Handles Long Lines Message-ID: Date: 10 Apr 90 15:13:33 GMT References: <41368@fmsrl7.UUCP> <101255@convex.convex.com> Sender: paul@ixi.co.uk (Paul Davey) Followup-To: comp.editors Organization: IXI Ltd. Lines: 33 In-reply-to: datri@convex.com's message of 8 Apr 90 21:33:47 GMT In article <101255@convex.convex.com> datri@convex.com (Anthony A. Datri) writes: >Can emacs or any other UNIX editor do horizontal scrolling? ^^^^^ "emacs" isn't a UNIX editor -- it's one of a variety of editors running on a variety of machines and OS's. MicroEmacs 3.10 certainly does horizontal scrolling, current-line-only or all-lines-at-once as you wish. A quick perusal of Gnumacs (18.55) doesn't find the feature under any obvious names. Well actually... GNU Emacs 18.54.2 of Tue Jan 30 1990 on daffy (berkeley-unix) scroll-right: bound to ^X> Scroll selected window display ARG columns right. Default for ARG is window width minus 2. scroll-left: bound to ^X< Scroll selected window display ARG columns left. Default for ARG is window width minus 2. -- Regards, paul@ixi.uucp IXI Limited Paul Davey ...!uunet!ixi!paul 62-74 Burleigh Street +44 224 462 132 (fax) Cambridge U.K. "These are interesting times" +44 223 462 131 (vox) CB1 1OJ -- Regards, paul@ixi.uucp IXI Limited Paul Davey ...!uunet!ixi!paul 62-74 Burleigh Street +44 224 462 132 (fax) Cambridge U.K.