Re: modeline hscroll
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> wrote:
>>>>> "Hrvoje" == Hrvoje Niksic
<hniksic(a)iskon.hr> writes:
Hrvoje> Didier Verna <didier(a)xemacs.org> writes:
>> - the team who sees it as dragging the modeline itself: moving
>> the mouse left shoud move the text left,
I can't make sense of this (IMHO YMMV obviously, just one data point).
The idea is that the modeline looks like a scrollbar with text and
glyphs *attached to* the scrollbar. If you move a scrollbar, one
expects that anything attached to the scrollbar moves along with it, in
the *same* direction.
[ Yeah, I know that scrollbars with stuff attached to them don't really
exist, but the modeline looks like such a beast. ]
I also understand the opposing viewpoint (regarding viewports) ...
and I can see the reasoning behind it ... but I don't think that way. ;-)
If modeline dragging via the mouse is ever allowed, I think we'll
need a config variable to control the movement direction, because there
are too many people in either groups. (Me, I don't care what the
default is, as long as there's a way to change it.)
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