Scrollbar Left Side

[Olivier Galibert]

On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 09:28:33AM -0400, David Raleigh Arnold wrote:
> It should be obvious that it is better to have the vertical scrollbar
> on the left side, because there is more text on the left side than
> the right and because it is more common to want to access the beginning
> of a line than the end.

Have you done an ergonomics study?  Are you actually competent in
ergonomics?  Did your study take scrollwheels into account?


> Bill Gates puts scrollbars on the right so that
> the window will seem more like the page of a written book.  This makes
> no sense, but it's done that way so that windows users won't be afraid.

Nice history revisionism there.


> That's fine.  Why can't I persuade xemacs to put the vertical scrollbar
> on the left side, where I want it?  I can't find any option, or
> documentation for one, anywhere on the xemacs web site.

M-: (set-specifier scrollbar-on-left-p t)

There doesn't seem to be an easy way to reach it.  You can put the
command in your .xemacs/init.el and be happy though.

  OG.