Re: Scrollbar moved

[David Kastrup]

Michael Satterwhite <michael.XREMOVETHIS@weblore.com> writes:

> I'm running emacs on Debian sarge under KDE. I have no idea what I've done,
> but the scrollbars have moved from the right side of the screen to the left
> side of the screen. I know it works the same, but it's driving me crazy for
> it to be on the "wrong" side.
> 
> Can anyone let me know how to move it back to the right?

They are on the right side.  Scroll bars are clicked on with the
mouse, and the mouse will be more useful near the left border than
near the right border when you are editing (unless you happen to type
Hebrew or Arabic texts).  When you partly obscur your editor window
and want to scroll it, you are much more likely to have the right side
obscured, and thus the scroll bars inaccessible.  Scrolling a window
of which you can only see the left half makes much more sense than
scrolling a window of which you see only the right half.

Do M-x customize-variable RET scroll-bar-mode RET to change that
setting, but if you want to use the scroll bars effectively, it would
be a good idea to try them on the left for a while.  It was not mere
stupidity that moved them there.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum