Re: modeline hscroll

Didier Verna <didier(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: The former (dragging the modeline) looks more natural to me, but neither view really satisfies me. The problem with the viewport idea is that viewports normally operate on other screen areas. Here the modeline would be a viewport for itself, which looks and feels weird. So I'd like to resurrect Kyle's proposal, which was: when modeline is too large to be displayed, simply draw an arrow at its right, and have clicking the arrow scroll the modeline by some amount. After the scrolling, a similar arrow on the left side could revert it. I don't see how the arrow thing could cause debates on scrolling direction. An arrow at the right pointing to the right should behave the same way as the one in the buffer when truncate-lines is non-nil.