Changing Horizontal Scrolling in Emacs

Question

Before using Emacs, I used Nano, and I would like to change the horizontal scrolling in Emacs to be slightly more intuitive. Just for clarification, by horizontal scrolling, I mean the forward-char and backward-char movement out of the window boundaries, and not the Ctrl+x > commands.

The main thing I would like to figure out is how to have it only scroll one letter at a time (I guess like horizontal "smooth-scrolling"), or maybe even one full pane width at a time.

I've tried changing some variables containing "hscroll" (like hscroll-margin), but none of them seem to get me closer to the behavior I am looking for.

What variables should I be looking at to get horizontal scrolling working how I want?

Answer 1

I think that you can get what you want with:

(setq hscroll-margin 0)
(setq hscroll-step 1)

If not, can you describe how you would like the behaviour to be.