From: "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
To: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo@gmail.com>
Cc: 8868@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8868: 24.0.50; Scroll bar in the minibuffer
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 18:26:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DF8DD53.1010904@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimPAoCSbmu6zs=MU2L4L6TdaWBNWQ@mail.gmail.com>
Hi.
FWIW, the minibuffer scrollbar usually isn't shown in the Gtk+ port as there
isn't room for it. I have never missed it.
Jan D.
Dani Moncayo skrev 2011-06-15 16.06:
> Severity: wishlist
>
> What is the point of having a vertical scroll bar in the minibuffer?
> How often is the minibuffer high enough to need it?
>
> I see it as something useless, aesthetically awful, a waste of
> horizontal space in the minibuffer.
>
> Thus, I'd like to suggest either to remove it, or, if someone sees a
> reason to keep it, control its visibility with its own
> variable/command (different from `scroll-bar-mode').
>
>
> In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
> of 2011-06-07 on 3249CTO
> Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
> configured using `configure --with-gcc (4.5) --no-opt --cflags
> -Ic:/build/include'
>
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-15 14:06 bug#8868: 24.0.50; Scroll bar in the minibuffer Dani Moncayo
2011-06-15 16:26 ` Jan Djärv [this message]
2019-08-01 8:54 ` martin rudalics
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