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Scrolling of large images

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From: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 14567 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14567: Scrolling of large images
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:57:21 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto <at> gmail.com>
>> Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 08:18:57 +0200
>> 
>> Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>> > Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>> >
>> >>> Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 14:26:13 +0300
>> >>> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
>> >>> Cc: 14567 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> >>> 
>> >>> > From: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto <at> gmail.com>
>> >>> > Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 13:13:05 +0200
>> >>> > 
>> >>> > however it would be great to be able to scroll horizontally too.
>> >>> 
>> >>> That's a much larger project, since we lack infrastructure to scroll
>> >>> horizontally by pixels.
>> >>
>> >> Actually, I see that I was wrong: set-window-hscroll can do the job.
>> >> The only problem is to get C-f/C-b and <left>/<right> keys invoke that
>> >> function when appropriate.  Patches are welcome.
>> >
>> > I don't understand how to use this, it is actually setting the number of
>> > column where to start scrolling, and it seems an image have only one
>> > column?
>> >
>> > Though only setting `auto-hscroll-mode' to nil let move with C-f/b and
>> > left/right as expected, may be this value should be let-bounded when
>> > image-mode is detected?
>> 
>> I saw auto-hscroll-mode was already used, but have no effect, when
>> moving it to image-mode and make it buffer-local, it is working.
>> However, navigation in image looks a little slower than scrolling
>> vertically, but maybe I am wrong.
>> 
>> 
>> diff --git a/lisp/image-mode.el b/lisp/image-mode.el
>> index 30dfd04..fdede81 100644
>> --- a/lisp/image-mode.el
>> +++ b/lisp/image-mode.el
>
> I'm confused: didn't you want C-f/C-b and the arrows to scroll images
> in modes other than image-mode?  I mentioned image-mode only as
> example of usage of set-window-hscroll, since image-mode already binds
> the movement keys to a command that scrolls the image horizontally.
Which command?
I see that forward-char is remapped to image-forward-hscroll and same
for backward-char, but it is not working because auto-hscroll-mode is
not set correctly. 
But may be I missed something?

> The idea was to use something similar in other modes, when an image is
> present in the window.
>
> Wasn't that what you wanted?
Yes also.


> If so, why are you suggesting changes to image-mode?
To allow navigation with C-f/b and left/right which is not working actually. 

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