# HG changeset patch # User Eli Zaretskii # Date 1013865348 0 # Node ID 60d8b3e0e785b4aa3c73b751d70a678306eb0bb5 # Parent d6acddb696b2afead3246c326a87c0571eacf128 (Horizontal Scrolling): Document automatic-hscroll-margin and automatic-hscroll-step. diff -r d6acddb696b2 -r 60d8b3e0e785 man/display.texi --- a/man/display.texi Sat Feb 16 13:04:09 2002 +0000 +++ b/man/display.texi Sat Feb 16 13:15:48 2002 +0000 @@ -640,6 +640,23 @@ to scroll the window, but never farther to the right than the amount you previously set by @code{scroll-left}. +@vindex automatic-hscroll-margin + The value of the variable @code{automatic-hscroll-margin} controls +how close to the window's edges point is allowed to get before the +window will be automatically scrolled. It is measured in columns. + +@vindex automatic-hscroll-step + The variable @code{automatic-hscroll-step} determines how many +columns to scroll the window when point gets too close to its edge. +When point is closer to the window's edge than the number of columns +given by @code{automatic-hscroll-margin}, automatic horizontal +scrolling will scroll the window by the amount of columns determined +by this variable. If the value of @code{automatic-hscroll-step} is a +positive integer, the window is scrolled that many columns. If it's a +floating-point number, it specifies the fraction of the window's width +to scroll. If it's zero, point will be centered horizontally after +the scroll. The default is zero. + @vindex automatic-hscrolling To disable automatic horizontal scrolling, set the variable @code{automatic-hscrolling} to @code{nil}.