GNU Emacstool question

[Bruce Barnett]

Glen says:
>I remember reading something recently about something called "emacstool";

If you have GNUemacs, you have emacstool. look in the  ./etc directory.

Gary says:
>Everything works fine *except* I've never been able to get emacstool to
>come up with the scrollbar on the side.  What am I doing wrong?

Nothing. You do not see the scrollbar. It is just an area of the screen on
the right hand side (The last 4 columns, as I recall).

Emacstool is a front end for GNUemacs, and allows you to specify mouse
bindings to different parts of the screen.  These are the mini-buffer,
mode line, text area, and scrollbar area, which is just the right hand
side (RHS) of the text area.

The bindings on the RHS assign the mouse buttons to functions that scroll
text around. You don't have to move to the RHS, because if you hold down
the Meta- ( i.e. "Left" or "Right") keyboard key, and click the mouse
buttons, you get the "scrollbar" action.  

The help key in emacstool is found by holding down Control, Shift, and one
of the Meta keys, AND pressing the right mouse button.

Emacstool allows you to modify the pop-up menus, execute keyboard macros
at what you are pointing at, etc.

Does anyone have any good GNUemacs code that makes use of this?
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