From: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: scrollbar alternative
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:41:53 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xbailjdt4bjy.fsf@cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2634xqyu7.fsf@imac-c2.pc.gwdg.de
On 2010-03-15 17:28 +0000, David Engster wrote:
> 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.
Does your code just show the percentage in a fancy face?
I turned off scrollbar too and use fringe arrows and percentage on the
modeline. I tried your code but didn't notice any difference.
Leo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-15 19:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-15 16:38 scrollbar alternative joakim
2010-03-15 17:28 ` David Engster
2010-03-15 18:20 ` Drew Adams
2010-03-15 19:57 ` David Engster
2010-03-15 19:41 ` Leo [this message]
2010-03-15 20:18 ` David Engster
2010-03-16 3:12 ` Zhu, Shenli
2010-03-16 4:34 ` Drew Adams
2010-03-16 6:24 ` Zhu, Shenli
2010-03-16 12:44 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-03-16 15:40 ` Drew Adams
2010-03-16 15:43 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-03-16 16:10 ` Drew Adams
2010-03-16 16:53 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-03-16 16:54 ` Deniz Dogan
2010-03-29 19:47 ` Progress indicator (was: scrollbar alternative) Leo
2010-03-29 19:54 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-03-29 21:30 ` Leo
2010-03-29 21:32 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-03-29 21:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-15 18:36 ` scrollbar alternative Deniz Dogan
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