Features: Scroll wheel/ball, right bar

[Hans Aberg]

At least the GNU Bison list is used for feature suggestions, so here  
for Emacs:

Under Mac OS X, I use a mouse with scroll wheel, and Apple now even  
has a mouse with a scroll ball, both which are used to scroll the  
frames within a window. When I now use emacs21, from Fink (under Mac  
OS 10.4.3), I feel somewhat hampered in not being able to do that. In  
the Mac OS X X11 X Window server, uxterm (and xterm), support scroll  
both in the frame and in the scroll-bar. In xman, scroll is supported  
only in the frame (not the scroll-bar). So it would be nice and help  
up user efficiency to have such a feature.

In addition, uxterm has a -rightbar, which puts the scroll-bar to the  
right, which I am Mac user is used to. Now, I think that might even  
have a -bothbar option, putting a scroll-bar both left and right, as  
there is a principle that efficiency in work is inversely  
proportional to the time it takes to move the pointer to the area of  
action. One could then choose the bar that is closest to the pointer.

  Hans Aberg