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Subject: Re: [9fans] Some questions
From: Geoff Collyer <geoff@collyer.net>
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Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 19:32:36 -0800
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What presotto said.

Also, unfortunately the wheel gives imprecise control of scrolling.
You move the wheel, and the screen jumps by some unpredictable amount.
If you have to scroll through a lot of text, it can take a long time
to get there.  So I've used the wheel and don't like it.

Plan 9's scroll bars let one scroll a precise number of lines, forward
or backward, or move to a relative position within the window.  I've
liked this since I first encountered it on the Blit.