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From: jdz@wucec2.UUCP (Jason D. Zions)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: 79-character screen (horiz. scrolling)
Message-ID: <1120@wucec2.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 22-Oct-85 13:59:03 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 22 13:59:03 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 24-Oct-85 00:40:23 EDT
References: <289@weitek.UUCP> <3300005@prism.UUCP> <296@weitek.UUCP>
Reply-To: jdz@wucec2.UUCP (Jason D. Zions)
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Organization: Wash. U. Center for Engineering Computing
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Summary: Get a real terminal.

In article <3300005@prism.UUCP>, matt@prism.UUCP writes:

> 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.

If you want real horizontal scrolling, get a terminal that does it in hardware;
the HP2626 comes quickly to mind, there may be others.

Failing that, I don't want to wait for a repaint, full or partial, of the
screen. I'd rather live with wrap. (Actually, shifting only the current line
has some appeal; would be useless for sets of lines requiring visual alignment,
like tables or equations or character diagrams, though).
-- 
Jason D. Zions				jdz@wucec2
Center for Engineering Computing	...ihnp4!wucs!wucec2!jdz
Washington University in St. Louis

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