Re: [PATCH] new feature: horizontal scrolling of full screen

Benno Schulenberg <[email protected]> Wed, 7 Jan 2026 14:09:11 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.editors.nano.devel
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Op 06-01-2026 om 04:29 schreef Peter Passchier:
> Would it make sense to have 8 as a default, but to have it user modifiable?
> Then people could choose 1 or 64, or whatever they like.

For what reason would one choose to scroll sideways in steps of 8 characters?
In times of limited baudrates and slow terminals it made sense to reduce the
number of full updates of the screen, but nowadays...  And if one wants to be
efficient, then nothing beats nano's default behavior (which it copied from
Pico, who copied it from uEmacs) of scrolling just one line by a large step.

Anyway, making this step configurable would be overkill.  The large-cursor-
jump functions proposed in the previous email would be more useful, I think.


Benno

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