From: "grischka" <grishka@gmx.de>
To: <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Scrollbar thumbs (was: Customizing the mode line)
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 11:41:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E4B18EFA338A4CD0AF0B171BCF5B31DE@editkapc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwv1vkj8frh.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org
>> I also find the scrollbar somewhat confusing: When the end of
>> buffer is visible in the window, I would expect the scrollbar to reach
>> all the way to the bottom, but it does not.
>
> It does with some GUI and not with others. In principle it should.
> The only reason for it not to is to try and work around problems when
> dragging the scrollbar thumb, where many GUI toolkits are absurdly
> dogmatic and make it pretty much impossible for Emacs to do what
> it should.
I guess it is just that these GUI toolkit people usually are trained to deliver good looking
and pixel-precise artwork and in consequence might have some difficulties to imagine
how it can be "pretty much impossibe" for some editor to know how many lines it is
actually displaying (or anyway that such editor would still want to use their scrollbars).
--- grischka
next reply other threads:[~2009-11-02 10:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-02 10:41 grischka [this message]
2009-11-02 11:21 ` Scrollbar thumbs Miles Bader
2009-11-03 0:48 ` grischka
2009-11-03 9:27 ` David Kastrup
2009-11-04 0:09 ` Miles Bader
2009-11-04 9:51 ` grischka
2009-11-04 11:18 ` joakim
2009-11-04 19:29 ` Jan Djärv
2009-11-04 20:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-05 1:18 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-11-09 23:14 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-11-05 9:23 ` Jan D.
2009-11-05 13:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-05 15:16 ` grischka
2009-11-05 15:32 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-05 15:35 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-11-05 16:07 ` David Kastrup
2009-11-05 23:55 ` Jason Rumney
2009-11-06 0:31 ` Miles Bader
2009-11-06 3:10 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-11-06 4:37 ` Miles Bader
2009-11-06 8:42 ` David Kastrup
2009-11-06 8:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-11-02 14:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-03 0:32 ` grischka
2009-11-03 1:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-03 5:37 ` grischka
2009-11-03 13:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-03 21:10 ` grischka
2009-11-03 23:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-03 10:02 ` joakim
2009-11-05 9:21 ` Jan D.
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-10-30 11:18 Customizing the mode line Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-30 13:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-31 6:09 ` Manoj Srivastava
2009-10-31 20:38 ` Scrollbar thumbs (was: Customizing the mode line) Stefan Monnier
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