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Subject: Re: scrollbars 
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On Tue, 07 Jan 1997 19:22:31 CST, Chuck Thompson said:
> difficult to do.  Something like the Motif text widget is easy.  Keep
> a running count of the number of lines and an additional counter which
> is incremented for each line wrap which is always easily calculatable
> since it is always caused by the same number of characters.

Not if you are using a proportional spaced font.  A line of 80 M's will
be a lot wider than a line of 80 i's.

/Valdis (who originally started using Xemacs because the GNU version
couldn't use Helvetica fonts in font-lock)....



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