Re: [PATCH] upcoming new feature: smooth whole-window sideways scrolling

Benno Schulenberg <[email protected]> Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:34:04 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.editors.nano.devel
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Op 13-01-2026 om 07:03 schreef Chris Allegretta:
> My feedback is simply: this is fantastic.

Nice to hear.  :)  But... do you wish it to become the default behavior?

> I think I'd ideally want to be
> able to mess with the value of CUSHION, and I can already hear the
> constant complaints online were this not to be introduced as somehow
> tunable since it is a big change, even if it's an awesome one.

Let's not get ahead of ourselves and wait and see what people think.  (I set
CUSHION = 3 just to distinguish my patch from Xylia's.  Maybe CUSHION should
be 2, to make the behavior more similar to single-line sidescrolling.)

People that want to experiment with CUSHION can recompile nano.  But...
I think a fixed, dependable, standard behavior is better in this case.

> But this is also a pretty substantial change in behavior if it ends up
> the default behavior instead of e.g. a toggle. Maybe worthy of a major
> version bump for next release if that is the plan?

Of course.  When it becomes the default behavior, the next version will
be 9.0.  Otherwise 8.8.

I'm not planning to add a toggle for this whole-window sideways scrolling.
(Just like there's no toggle for smooth/jumpy scrolling -- gone since 4.1.)


Benno

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