From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Side windows Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:15:35 +0200 Message-ID: <4BC54F77.4080409@swipnet.se> References: <4BC4CBB5.3050809@gmx.de> <87ljcruevx.fsf_-_@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1271222316 20941 80.91.229.12 (14 Apr 2010 05:18:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 05:18:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: grischka , drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 14 07:18:34 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O1uzg-0005FW-3C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:18:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:32790 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O1uzf-0007dh-44 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:18:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O1uxO-0007GD-IE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:16:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=35398 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O1uxM-0007Fd-9x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:16:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O1uxK-0004aK-TU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:16:08 -0400 Original-Received: from smtprelay-h21.telenor.se ([195.54.99.196]:54543) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O1uxK-0004a9-Mt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:16:06 -0400 Original-Received: from ipb1.telenor.se (ipb1.telenor.se [195.54.127.164]) by smtprelay-h21.telenor.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A849E8176 for ; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:15:36 +0200 (CEST) X-SENDER-IP: [85.225.45.110] X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AoZEAKvsxEtV4S1uPGdsb2JhbACHZpNvDAEBAQE1LbxXhQ0E X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.52,202,1270418400"; d="scan'208";a="62942461" Original-Received: from c-6e2de155.25-1-64736c10.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se (HELO coolsville.localdomain) ([85.225.45.110]) by ipb1.telenor.se with ESMTP; 14 Apr 2010 07:15:36 +0200 Original-Received: from [172.20.199.13] (zeplin [172.20.199.13]) by coolsville.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DBFF47FA01A; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:15:35 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; sv-SE; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 In-Reply-To: <87ljcruevx.fsf_-_@mail.jurta.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:123614 Archived-At: Juri Linkov skrev 2010-04-14 01.31: >> To give another example: A scrollbar is defined mostly by its action >> to "scroll content in the associated window". Of course you could use >> the scrollbar widget just as well to adjust your speaker volume, but >> then it wouldn't be a scrollbar, even if it looked like one. > > There is a task in etc/TODO: > > ** Compilation error navigation bar, parallel to the scroll bar, > indicating where in the buffer there are compilation errors. > Perhaps we could arrange to display these error indications on top > of the scroll bar itself. That depends on to what extent toolkit > scroll bars are extensible. > > If it's possible to display such tab-like indications > on the scroll bar, is it still called a scroll bar? > > If it's not possible, then what is an alternative? > Maybe, 1-column side bar windows? > As Eli already said, the fringe. Scrollbars aren't the place for this. How do you know when to remove these indications? Jan D.