fkk@stasys.sta.sub.org (Frank Kaefer) (04/09/90)
kim@spock (Kim Letkeman) writes: > JOVE does a nice job of scrolling each line as you edit it. It moves > perhaps 20 or 30 characters at a time. > GnuEmacs is less smooth in this area. You either accept wrapped lines > (which I personally dislike) or you accept chopped lines. > (some deletions made) Well, what about MicroEmacs ? Version 3.10 has a very nice way to handle long lines: it scrolls vertically, and you can set the amount of characters to scroll (variable $hjump). MicroEmacs can even handle very long lines. I once had a text with no CRs (CR marks the end of a line in OS-9), only LF, so uEmacs read the whole 200 kB in one line (!). Cheers, Frank [P.S.: I think MicroEmacs is one of the best editors in our galaxy] --- +--------------------------------+ Darkness all around us | Frank Kaefer | fkk@stasys.UUCP | We don't close our eyes | (Compuserve: 72427,2101) | No one's gonna ground us | (BIX: fkaefer) | We were born to fly | Starnberg, West Germany | Comin' at us no stopping +--------------------------------+ Born to amplify [Carry On - Manowar]
datri@convex.com (Anthony A. Datri) (04/09/90)
>Can emacs or any other UNIX editor do horizontal scrolling?
^^^^^
"emacs" isn't a UNIX editor -- it's one of a variety of editors running on
a variety of machines and OS's. MicroEmacs 3.10 certainly does horizontal
scrolling, current-line-only or all-lines-at-once as you wish. A quick
perusal of Gnumacs (18.55) doesn't find the feature under any obvious names.art@felix.UUCP (Art Dederick) (04/09/90)
Look at GNU's readline library. It can be configured for vertical or horizontal scrolling. GNU EMACS most likely has this built in. I use the readline library for making secure user interfaces and have found it's other features nice (history, name completion etc.).