This is something new to me, and something that I know doesn’t work in Windows XP.
I was programming on my Macbook, when all the long, horizontal lines of code started bugging me. I had to click on the horizontal scrollbar and move the focus left and right, and I thought to myself, “Isn’t there a better way to do this? Let’s just see how smart the Apple developers are.”
My first thought was that I should have gotten a mouse that had a 360-degree scroll wheel/ball or at least one that allowed me to scroll horizontally as well as vertically. Then I thought about how scrolling horizontally is just a different way of scrolling – and I wondered if the various modifier keys would affect that.
So I tried with the different modifier keys, and to my surprise, the Shift key actually did work the way I had hoped! If you hold down the Shift key and scroll, you’ll be scrolling horizontally instead of vertically. Now that’s cool.
hate to break it to ya but you can do horizontal scrolling (and vertical) scrolling on pretty much any laptop now…and on a mac OR pc all you have to do is move two fingers left or right to scroll horizontally…
Ha…yeah on a trackpad, but not if you have a mouse
I do recall on Win XP you can hold down the middle button on a mouse to scroll left/right/up/down. Can’t seem to replicate the same with a MAC… 🙁 Is there some config I’m missing?
Thanks for the tip anyway!
Thanks!
Does anyone know how to turn it off? It has become very annoying for me.
I found a way! The free utility Mos has an advanced setting where you can press control (or shift etc, you choose) and it will change the scroll direction to horizontal! Of course majic mice have two fingers that do the same thing but this is how to do it on a traditional mouse. Hope this helps!