From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Scrollbar thumbs Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:13:04 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <878wenr0pr.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1257268515 24277 80.91.229.12 (3 Nov 2009 17:15:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 17:15:15 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 03 18:15:08 2009 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 4.50) id 1N5MyF-0003D3-Fx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:15:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56816 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N5MyE-0004b9-MI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:15:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N5Mwp-00042Z-Qa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:13:35 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N5Mwl-0003zF-8t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:13:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50582 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N5Mwl-0003zA-4X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:13:31 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:52671) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N5Mwk-0003nO-Lo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:13:30 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1N5Mwh-0002Rs-90 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:13:27 +0100 Original-Received: from p5b2c3fef.dip.t-dialin.net ([91.44.63.239]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:13:27 +0100 Original-Received: from dak by p5b2c3fef.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:13:27 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p5b2c3fef.dip.t-dialin.net X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:pSEK9E+50AXCBB5IAcmMYlc7c6w= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:116601 Archived-At: "grischka" writes: >> > The simple rule is: First do it right, then do it fast. Try to make >> > it work for small files and then you can still think about how to get >> > equally good results with larger ones. >> >> It is not an option to make Emacs unusable on large files for the sake >> of the scrollbar idiosyncrasies of some toolkit. > > In practice, if the file is large, scrollbar operations are less > accurate and less smooth anyway, so you can get away with rough > estimations very well without further compromising the scroll quality. Scrollbars are not just updated when scrolling. -- David Kastrup