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Subject: Re: Re: 79-character screen (horiz. scro
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Date: Mon, 14-Oct-85 14:56:00 EDT
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/* Written 10:50 pm  Oct 10, 1985 by neal@weitek in prism:net.emacs */
/* ---------- "Re: 79-character screen (horiz. scr" ---------- */
> 
> I can speak for Gosling EMACS here: the view window *can* be shifted
> horizontaly by setting wrap-long-lines off and diddling the left-offset
> value (setq left-offset.)  
>

True, but this isn't the same as true horizontal scrolling, where the
screen follows the cursor automatically.  Granted, this is almost
impossbile to arrange on dumb 9600 baud terminals, since the redisplay is
much too slow to permit shifting the screen one character at a time with
every (forward-character) that gets executed.  One could potentially shift
the screen by some percentage of its width when the cursor moves off
either end.  Or, one could take the Jove approach and only shift the
current line.  Either of these would be a big win over line wrapping or
truncation.

Mike Gallagher, are you listening?

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