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A brief history of Windows scroll bar shortcuts

179 points · 118 comments · tybulewicz

charcircuit · 1790189484 · focus · HN ↗
You can also left click on the scroll bar to scroll to a place.
1. layer8 · 1790190433 · focus · HN ↗
  If you mean dragging, then that’s more than just a single click. And if you mean clicking in the gutter, then it also doesn’t work with a single click; you have to make use of the auto-repeat functionality, which takes O(n) time, where n is the distance between positions in number of pages. Shift+Click does it instantly in O(1).
  1. charcircuit · 1790195850 · focus · HN ↗
    >it also doesn’t work with a single click
    If you hold it down long enough it does do it in a single click.
    layer8 · 1790196216 · focus · HN ↗
    Look again at what I wrote. Auto-repeat translates into successive click events.
    autoexec · 1790196280 · focus · HN ↗
    one page up/down at a time though. It gets there eventually, but it's ugly.

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