Re: Gtk scrollbar: thumb too short

["Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com>]

Thumb behavior depends on which toolkit you use.

Today's CVS snapshot, Fri, 2003 Mar 28  14:53 UTC
GNU Emacs 21.3.50.253 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)

"Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu> wrote:

    >         This means that in a short buffer, such as the initial
    >         *Messages* buffer in a plain Emacs 21.3 started with
    > 
    >             emacs -q --no-site-file --eval '(blink-cursor-mode 0)'
    > 
    >         the thumb does *not* show it is displaying `all' of the
    >         buffer, but shows the post-end-of-buffer empty lines too.

    > ....

    > I prefer the Emacs 20.7 way ...

    It's also the 21.3 behavior, except in Motif.

That is true for 21.3 configured like this:

    gcc=gcc-3.2 ./configure --with-type1 --prefix=/usr/local --with-sound=yes

(i.e., with a LUCID tool kit), 

but it is *not* true for 21.3 configured with --with-x-toolkit=gtk

So it is not only that 

   .... The behavior of the scrollbar in the presence of large chunks
   of invisible text is definitely less than perfect.

as you said, but it depends on the toolkit.  <grumble>

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