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How to horizontally scroll in Notepad++? I know the way by dragging horizontal scroll bar, but I would like more convenient way:

  1. Scrolling with keyboard

  2. Scrolling with mouse wheel while holding Shift key pressed.

I have lots of long lines in logs files. And I need to scroll very fast both ways: horizontally and vertically.

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  1. My mouse (Logitex RX 250) supports vertical scrolling by tapping the mousewheel to the left and right

  2. in the menu option "view" you can activate the "wrap" option. this will wrap long lines so that vertical scrolling won't be necessary because anything that would leave the window is being wraped and written under the line.

  3. Holding "ctrl" key and then holding right will go to the right jumping from word to word.

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1. I have Logitech too, and I like to keep mouse wheel tapping to sides mapped to "Go Back" and "Go Forward". 2. I want my lines to be unwrapped, because it's very long LOGS lines, I want to see all lines beginnings lined up. 3. Words are not always same length and it happens, that it can jump more to the right, than it fits into the screen if there would be a very long "word". Sometimes it happens. 4. I don't want to zoom out either. – ViliusK Apr 8 '11 at 11:19
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well zooming wouldn't be a good option yes. then you could do some kind of makro or use "autohotkey" to creade a certain hot key that taps right for example 10 20 or 50 times. – ITroubs Apr 8 '11 at 11:33
there also are some gesture programs you can use to make a gesture like holding right mouse button and swiping to the right what makes 50 taps on the right arrow key in the current activated window. i think the program i once used for gestures is called "strokeit" – ITroubs Apr 8 '11 at 11:36
@ViliusK did anything of this help? – ITroubs Apr 8 '11 at 12:22
None of above are good. Macro is not good as well, because not all lines are same length. So if I would use a macro which goes 50 symbols to the right it might jump to next line and go to the beginning of line. – ViliusK Apr 12 '11 at 13:12
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