Windows emacs virtical scroll bar

Windows emacs virtical scroll bar

[Dave Schuyler]

Hi,

I'm using gnu emacs 21.2.1 on Windows 2000.

When I use the mouse to move the virtical scroll bar to the bottom of the window and release it, the scroll bar block/handle/thing shrinks a little and I'm not at the bottom of the document.

This seems like a bug.  I'd like to grab the scroll bar with the mouse, move to the end of the document and be at the end of the document.

As it is now, I need to use some other means to reach the bottom of the document (move the cursor down, M->, or use the scroll bar down arrow).

In case it's important, I have 'large fonts' enabled and the font I'm viewing most documents with is courier regular 10.



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RE: Windows emacs virtical scroll bar

[Josh Griffin]

parameter@go.com (Dave Schuyler) wrote:
>When I use the mouse to move the virtical scroll bar to the bottom of
>the window and release it, the scroll bar block/handle/thing shrinks a 
>little and I'm not at the bottom of the document.
[emacs 21.2.1 on Win2k]

I have the same problem in my Emacs (21.2.1) on Windows 98.  Unlike the Unix 
versions I use, the vertical scroll bar doesn't dynamically resize as I 
scroll.  So it is often the case that I cannot scroll to the bottom of the 
buffer.

To see this behavior, just open an emacs window and type:  ESC 3 0 0 RET H I
Scroll to the top however you want, and then try to scroll down by dragging 
the scroll bar.

I'm gonna try looking through the source to try and find a fix/workaround.
If anybody has any pointers, that'd be wonderful.

Here's the bug report stuff:

In GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i386-msvc-windows98.1998)
of 2002-07-07 on JOSHDAN
configured using `configure --with-msvc (12.00)'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: enu
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Thanks
--Joshdan

[This being my first post, I am obligated to mention just how much I love 
emacs]

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