scroll horizontally

DomOBU

Hello,

I can scroll vertically (top to bottom).
How can I scroll horizontally (left to right)?

Thank you for your answer.

NPP 8.5.1

PeterJones

~~I don’t think there’s a keyboard+mouse option for the horizontal scroll~~ [update: duh; see @guy038 reply below]. All I know of is the horizontal scrollbar at the bottom of the window, which won’t be visible unless there’s enough text to be scrolled and the View > Word Wrap is not on:

no scrollbar
word-wrap on
word-wrap off

BTW: if you have a fancy mouse like shown in this post, it might have a horizontal scroll wheel, which does work with Notepad++ and other Windows apps.

guy038

Hello, @domobu, @peterjones and all,

Not totally sure but, to my mind, if you use the following mouse gesture, you get a true horizontal scrolling of the curent tab, even with a standard mouse :

Shift + Mouse Wheel Up/Down , in the editor window ( not in the tabs zone ! )

Best Regards,

guy038

Alan Kilborn

@guy038 said in scroll horizontally:

Not totally sure but, to my mind, if you use the following mouse gesture, you get a true horizontal scrolling of the curent tab, even with a standard mouse :
Shift + Mouse Wheel Up/Down

Works for me!

PeterJones

@guy038 said in scroll horizontally:

Shift + Mouse Wheel Up/Down , in the editor window

The annoying thing is, I thought I had tested that combo before making my post, because I thought there was some modifier+scrollbar combo that worked… I apparently skipped over that combo in what I tested (I think I must’ve only done ones that included ctrl rather than just-shift).

I corrected my post above to scratch out the false statement.

(I looked up the history: it was added in v7.6.4 in 2019)

DomOBU

@PeterJones
Thank you for your answer.
There’s enough text to be scrolled and the View > Word Wrap is off (automatic line feedback is not activated).
However, I don’t have the horizontal scrollbar available at the bottom of the window like on your screenshot. Perhaps there’s another parameter to consider.

@guy038
Thank you for your answer.
Your solution works correctly.

My mouse supports horizontal scrolling. It is another solution but less natural for me.
The horizontal scrolling is a usual way on many Windows software.