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diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index f1da038cb8b..393c352ae42 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -667,6 +667,12 @@ Horizontal scrolling now happens automatically if
 `automatic-hscrolling' is set (the default).  This setting can be
 customized.
 
+If a window is scrolled horizontally with set-window-hscroll, or
+scroll-left/scroll-right (C-x <, C-x >), this serves as a lower bound
+for automatic horizontal scrolling.  Automatic scrolling will scroll
+the text more to the left if necessary, but won't scroll the text more
+to the right than the column set with set-window-hscroll etc.
+
 +++
 ** Tool bar support.
 
diff --git a/etc/TODO b/etc/TODO
index ce15a579bd2..12eb39595f2 100644
--- a/etc/TODO
+++ b/etc/TODO
@@ -143,3 +143,5 @@
 
 * Remove the limitation that window and frame widths and heights can
   be only full columns/lines.
+
+* Add horizontal scroll bars.