From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: etc/TODO:Horizontal scrollbar
Date: 05 Jul 2003 00:36:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5x8yrdyl62.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200307041542.h64FgGo04392@raven.dms.auburn.edu>
Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu> writes:
> Dhruva Krishnamurthy wrote:
>
> I will send an image for those interested with the
> horizontal scroll-bar under the minibuffer. It looks like the minibuffer
> is sandwiched between the modeline and the horizontal scroll-bar. Just
> imagine when you type a long line in the modeline, the horizontal
> scroll-bar's THUMB is moving/scrolling. It is quite distracting. This is
> my opinion though.
>
> All of this only seems to apply to the minibuffer's horizontal
> scroll-bar. It would appear that only windows in which truncation is
> in effect should get a horizontal scroll-bar. (I do not see what
> sense it makes for windows that use continuation lines.)
That's true .. just like a vertical scroll bar is really unnecessary
for a buffer which fits entirely in its window...
> For most
> people, it seems that horizontal scroll-bars would only be used in
> vertically split windows. (And thus not in the minibuffer.) For
> people who have truncate-lines set to t, it might be possible to
> design the variable horizontal-scroll-bar-mode such that it would be
> possible to exclude the minibuffer from the list of windows getting a
> horizontal scroll-bar, assuming that it looks really that annoying.
The latest "big changes" I made allow vertical scroll bars to be
configured "per-window" and "per-buffer"; of course, vertical scroll
bars should be equally flexible.
--
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> http://www.cua.dk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-04 22:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-02 12:29 etc/TODO:Horizontal scrollbar Dhruva Krishnamurthy
2003-07-02 14:12 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-07-03 15:48 ` Richard Stallman
2003-07-04 4:33 ` Dhruva Krishnamurthy
2003-07-04 13:27 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-07-04 15:42 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-07-04 22:36 ` Kim F. Storm [this message]
2003-07-05 22:26 ` Richard Stallman
2003-07-05 23:05 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-07-05 22:25 ` Richard Stallman
2003-07-03 0:55 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-07-03 11:51 ` Frank Schmitt
2003-07-03 14:45 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-07-04 22:43 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-07-04 21:32 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-07-06 18:53 ` Richard Stallman
2003-07-07 0:08 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-07-07 2:01 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-07-07 11:45 ` Dhruva Krishnamurthy
2003-07-08 20:01 ` Richard Stallman
2003-07-07 3:03 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-07-03 15:48 ` Richard Stallman
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