Re: automatic-hscrolling not configurable

[Andreas Schwab]

Klaus Straubinger <KSNetz@Arcor.DE> writes:

|> schwab@suse.de (Andreas Schwab) wrote:
|> 
|> > scroll-left might already do what you want:
|> >
|> > If `automatic-hscrolling' is non-nil, the argument ARG modifies
|> > a lower bound for automatic scrolling, i.e. automatic scrolling
|> > will not scroll a window to a column less than the value returned
|> > by this function.
|> 
|> >From what could I have guessed this, given the following help text
|> about the function scroll-left on my Emacs 21.1:
|> 
|>     scroll-left is an interactive built-in function.
|>     (scroll-left &optional ARG)
|> 
|>     Scroll selected window display ARG columns left.
|>     Default for ARG is window width minus 2.
|> 
|> Is it a documentation bug, or is this feature only implemented in
|> a newer version of Emacs?

It was a doc bug, the feature is already present in 21.1.

Andreas.

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