Re: [gtk-list] RE: Horizontal Scrolling in Text widgets?

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Trog <trog@gtk.org> writes:

> On 08-Jul-98 Rick Flower wrote:
> > I just ran into a problem and noticed that horizontal scrolling
> > doesn't work
> > (read
> > that as not implemented..).  Is there any particular reason for
> > this?
> 
> It's historical. The horizontal scrolling did used to work - but
> back then the text widget had so many bugs it was almost useless.
> 
> For the 1.0 release, Owen worked hard on getting most of the bugs
> out, but at the cost of the horizontal scrolling.

Not that it matters, but actually, horizontal scrolling never
worked. Josh never got around to it.
                                        Owen