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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Showing end of buffer
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 16:25:12 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040122212512.GA31448@fencepost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u3ca7c0q5.fsf@gnu.org>

On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 01:11:30PM -0500, Sam Steingold wrote:
> I know it is too late - the feature has already been implemented,
> but how is this better than the scrollbar?
> This whole thing - arrows, EOB/BOB angles - just duplicates the exact
> same information in the scrollbar (without the benefit of clickability).

(1) It doesn't take up the space the scrollbar does (the fringe is already
    there).

(2) It's visually much lighter weight that a scrollbar.  The reason I
    don't like using a scrollbar is because it demands too much attention;
    these little icons on the other hand seem just about right.

Also perhaps:

(3) It lets you avoid the scrollbar when your particular environment happens
    to have reallly ugly scrollbars (not uncommon!).

-miles
-- 
o The existentialist, not having a pillow, goes everywhere with the book by
  Sullivan, _I am going to spit on your graves_.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-22 21:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-21  0:59 Showing end of buffer Richard Stallman
2003-04-21  1:57 ` Miles Bader
2003-04-21  6:05   ` Karl Eichwalder
2003-04-21  8:46     ` Miles Bader
2003-04-21  9:37       ` Karl Eichwalder
2003-04-23  1:00       ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-23  1:35         ` Miles Bader
2004-01-16 20:03       ` Kim F. Storm
2004-01-16 23:12         ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2004-01-17  0:33         ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-01-17  1:29           ` Miles Bader
2004-01-17  1:48           ` Kim F. Storm
2004-01-19 18:27         ` Glenn Morris
2004-01-19 23:51           ` Kim F. Storm
2004-01-19 20:42         ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-01-19 21:42           ` Miles Bader
2004-01-20  0:41             ` Kim F. Storm
2004-01-19 23:59               ` David Kastrup
2004-01-20  9:42                 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-01-20  2:22               ` Miles Bader
2004-01-20 10:43                 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-01-19 21:55           ` Robert J. Chassell
2004-01-19 23:48           ` Kim F. Storm
2004-01-20  7:47             ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-01-20 15:31           ` Richard Stallman
2004-01-20 22:39             ` Kim F. Storm
2004-01-21  4:25               ` David Kastrup
2004-01-21 21:09               ` Richard Stallman
2004-01-22  4:55                 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2004-01-23 18:24                   ` Richard Stallman
2004-01-24  0:12                     ` Kim F. Storm
2004-02-17 23:28             ` Kim F. Storm
2004-01-22 19:04         ` Peter Lee
2003-04-21 10:05     ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-21 11:03       ` Karl Eichwalder
2003-04-21 12:01     ` Simon Josefsson
2003-04-21 13:28     ` Stefan Monnier
2003-04-21  7:30 ` Werner LEMBERG
2004-01-22 18:11 ` Sam Steingold
2004-01-22 21:25   ` Miles Bader [this message]
2004-01-22 21:41     ` Sam Steingold
2004-01-22 22:03       ` Miles Bader
2004-01-23  0:07       ` Kim F. Storm
2004-01-23 10:31         ` Gaute B Strokkenes

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