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

Benno Schulenberg <[email protected]> Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:05:11 +0100

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Op 14-01-2026 om 18:58 schreef Chris Allegretta:
> Since it's such a big change, I worry if we don't make it flexible in
> some ways it's going to cause people pain to adapt

People won't need to adapt.  When the united sidescrolling becomes the
default and people don't like that behavior, they can switch if off with
'--solo' or 'set solosidescrolling' (or whatever the option is going to
be called), to make nano use the old, well-known, single-line horizontal
scrolling.  They can hardly complain, because that's how it always worked.

Sure, it might be _nice_ to make the united sidescrolling flexible and
configurable, but I don't see a need to do that upfront.  There is always
room for a 9.1 and 9.2.

> For the remainder, will they actually care if the
> behavior changes? Definitely seems worth putting out a pre-release for
> commentary.

I'm not going to make a pre-release for this -- I loathe pre-releases.  :)
Personally I can't be bothered to build those: I just wait for the final
release and use that.  In my opinion, when one wants feedback from the
entire user base, only a regular release will do.  Otherwise one gets
feedback mainly from untypical users.

> Xy really initially liked the
> 'jumpy' behavior (hence implementing it that way) but I think would have
> been perfectly ok with a larger or settable cushion value.

It seems you're misunderstanding the cushion thing.  'Cushion' is the
distance the cursor keeps from the edge: when the distance would become
smaller, then the screen will scroll sideways.  But the scrollstep is
still always just one character.

(When the code has been pushed to master, Xylia or yourself is welcome
to provide a patch that makes the scrollstep half-a-screen width when
'--jumpyscrolling' or 'set jumpyscrolling' is in effect.  That's the
only configurability that I will accept for now.)


Benno

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