Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r99650: Put scroll-bar on right by default on UNIX.

[Richard Riley]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> James Cloos <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> C> Put scroll-bar on right by default on UNIX.
>>>
>>> Ewww.  Why, if may I ask?
>>>
>>> Way over on the right makes the scrollbar essentially useless (except,
>>> of course, for putative buffers which are (will be) primarily r2l
>>> and those times when the frame is split horizontally).
>>>
>>> It really needs to be near the action, and on landscape displays the
>>> frames are typically wider than (most of) the text.
>>
>> I'm familiar with the advantages, but this battle was fought long ago.
>
> Emacs is not occupied territory.  Where it makes no sense, following the
> herd is not necessary.
>
>> Every graphical user interface created in the last X years puts the
>> scroll bar on the right.
>
> Emacs is not a graphical display application, but an input text oriented
> system.  JFTR, xterm has its scrollbar on the _left_.
>

How silly.

I, and most users I suspect, would want the scrollbar on the GUI version
in the same place as the HUGE majority for GUI "X" applications. On the
right.

xterm is not a "GUI application" in any but the most pedantic minds.