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From: stef@lebourget (Stephane Payrard - Sun France Consulting)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: automatic horizontal scrolling
Keywords: scrolling, horizontal
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Date: 17 Aug 89 10:20:39 GMT
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Reply-To: spayrard@sun.com (Stephane Payrard - Sun France Consulting)
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        Hi


I feel that an interesting feature is missing in gnuemacs: automatic
horizontal scrolling when the line is truncated and the point move
past the truncation. I feel boring to be obliged to explicitly scroll
the window in such a case. More, it is not homogenous with the general
behavior of emacs: when you move the point in a not currrently visible
part of a line, emacs scrolls vertically to show the line with the
point. I should expect such a similar behavior when the point is moved
horizontally outside the current view.
 It would be useful with very horizontally large form.

A subsidiary (and optional) feature should be to scroll simultaneously
each (or some) view (ie window) on the same buffer. With such a feature one
could have a view with the title of a tabular form with the fields in a
same form's row correctly aligned.

An example of a display with two views with an identical horizontal shift.


column10  |  column 11 |
--**-Emacs: tabular_file            (Text)----Top-----
apple     |  pie       |
orange    |  cake      |
--**-Emacs: tabular_file            (Text)----Bot-----


Is there a good reason not to implement this stuff?
May be it  is already implemented in a way or another.
Any comment or suggestion appreciated


        stef
        
        Stephane Payrard
        Sun Microsystems France


PS: i am new and self-teached to news (and gnews), so excuse me (and
correct me) if I don't use them correctly or if this discussion has
already been raised.