On 03/16/2010 04:18 AM, David Engster wrote:
> Leo<sdl.web@gmail.com>  writes:
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>> On 2010-03-15 17:28 +0000, David Engster wrote:
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>>> To me, the GTK scrollbars always behaved a bit strange in this regard,
>>> anyway. For example, I think scrollbars should be hidden when there is
>>> nothing to scroll, this way giving you an immediate optical hint that
>>> you're currently seeing everything there is. But in Emacs, you can
>>> always scroll the window until (window-start) reaches (point-max).
>>>
>>> Therefore, I also disabled the scrollbar and now use some code to get a
>>> scrollbar-like display in the mode-line. I know there's
>>> size-indication-mode, but I find an information like "13% of 2.8k" not
>>> very helpful.
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>> Does your code just show the percentage in a fancy face?
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>> I turned off scrollbar too and use fringe arrows and percentage on the
>> modeline. I tried your code but didn't notice any difference.
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> It displays the percentage and displays a moving bar, just like a
> scrollbar, but you can't drag it. It should look something like this:
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> -David
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Hi David,

I tried to copy your code to my .emacs file, but my mode bar doesn't 
change like yours. Shall I change something else?

My mode bar look like:
mode bar only percentage

Thanks in advance!
Shenli