Function: scroll-bar-drag

scroll-bar-drag is an interactive and byte-compiled function defined in scroll-bar.el.gz.

Signature

(scroll-bar-drag EVENT)

Documentation

Scroll the window by dragging the scroll bar slider.

If you click outside the slider, the window scrolls to bring the slider there.

Key Bindings

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/scroll-bar.el.gz
(defun scroll-bar-drag (event)
  "Scroll the window by dragging the scroll bar slider.
If you click outside the slider, the window scrolls to bring the slider there."
  (interactive "e")
  (let* (done
	 (echo-keystrokes 0)
	 (end-position (event-end event))
	 (window (nth 0 end-position))
	 (before-scroll))
    (with-current-buffer (window-buffer window)
      (setq before-scroll point-before-scroll))
    (save-selected-window
      (select-window window 'mark-for-redisplay)
      (setq before-scroll
	    (or before-scroll (point))))
    (scroll-bar-drag-1 event)
    (track-mouse
      (while (not done)
	(setq event (read-event))
	(if (eq (car-safe event) 'mouse-movement)
	    (setq event (read-event)))
	(cond ((eq (car-safe event) 'scroll-bar-movement)
	       (scroll-bar-drag-1 event))
	      (t
	       ;; Exit when we get the drag event; ignore that event.
	       (setq done t)))))
    (sit-for 0)
    (with-current-buffer (window-buffer window)
      (setq point-before-scroll before-scroll))))