Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cmcl2!rutgers!att!mcdchg!laidbak!obdient!gagme!grahj From: grahj@gagme.chi.il.us (jim graham) Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: Sideways scroling in Elvis Message-ID: <784@gagme.chi.il.us> Date: 2 Oct 90 11:36:44 GMT References: <1990Sep25.130305.9858@ibmpcug.co.uk> <162@pdxgate.UUCP> Organization: GAGME - Public Access UNIX of Chicago, Illinois, USA, Earth Lines: 27 In article peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >How about just sideways-scrolling the line you're on, at least until you move >to another line. That'd let you get out there with fewer redraws. I've been reading lots of the comments about sideways scrolling on Elvis (which I'm still looking for source for, BTW, if anyone feels like mailing it to me!). I have a suggestion that I think might just make everyone happy --- since some of us require sideways scrolling, and some hate it, and so on.... If the author of Elvis should decide to do Elvis w/o it, how about a #define such as #define UseSideScroll for those of us who need such features, and the lack of such a define for those who don't want it..... BTW, as far as scrolling one line, keep this in mind --- sometimes, you want to look at one line with reference to the other lines around it. For example, I'm using a TeX (and tables.tex) to draw configurations for IDNX nodes in our telecommunications network at work. The lines often go out several hundred columns long. With vi, editing these files is impossible....unless you can see columns (as such) straight down the page, you're pretty much lost. Anyway, just thoughts....take it or leave it. Jim Graham PS: again, if someone would kindly mail me the src....tnx.