Re: Are Windows-Emacs' scrollbars broken?

["Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu.emacs.help/news/@flint.cs.yale.edu>]

>> It doesn't scroll all the way to the bottom, stopping a couple of
>> lines before the end of the buffer.
>> And the scrolling text jitters up & down while scrolling.
> This is because Emacs sets the scroll-bar thumb size based on the
> number of characters, not lines.  One reason is that Emacs doesn't
> count lines in the buffer unless specifically required to do so by
> some command.

Changing from char to lines wouldn't solve the problem.  You need to change
from char to pixels to get something that works.  Of course you
can also change other things such as the rule for the position/size
of the thumb.


        Stefan


PS: Of course the difference between counting lines-vs-pixels is less than
    for chars-vs-pixels, so it would help in many cases.