Re: Horizontal scroll bars

[Óscar Fuentes]

Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> writes:

> I want horizontal scroll bars on my Debian 8 emacs (loaded as a deb
> package). I tried this in my init.el file:
>
> ;;============
> (load "scroll-bar")
> (add-to-list 'initial-frame-alist
>     '(horizontal-scroll-bars . t)
>     )
> ;;============
>
> and get nothing.

Try

M-x horizontal-scroll-bar-mode

> I've tried:
>
> M-x horizontal-scroll-bars-available-p
>
> and get no [no-match]

That function is not interactive. You need to evaluate

(horizontal-scroll-bars-available-p)

to see its result.

> Do I have to build emacs from source to get it?

Possibly. horizontal-scroll-bars-available-p returns nil on my build
configured with

--without-toolkit-scroll-bars --with-x-toolkit=lucid