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From: neal@weitek.UUCP (Neal Bedard)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: Re: 79-character screen (horiz. scro
Message-ID: <296@weitek.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 17-Oct-85 07:43:26 EDT
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In article <3300005@prism.UUCP>, matt@prism.UUCP writes:
> 
> [Me:]
> > 
> > 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. ....
> ....  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?

Well, I actually use three macros called dot-to-left-margin, dot-to-centre,
and dot-to-right-margin bound to three keypad keys. dot-to-centre seems to
be the one I use the most. The redraw isn't too painful, as it happens in
roughly 1 sec. at 9600 baud.

I find this setup to be sufficient, even though I have to move the cursor to
scroll the screen to where I want it.

-Neal
-- 
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