From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
Cc: 27830@debbugs.gnu.org, kaushal.modi@gmail.com, dgutov@yandex.ru
Subject: bug#27830: 26.0.50; Left fringe gets truncated by a pixel in window not sharing that edge with frame
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 10:46:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87infno0ew.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <59DC816D.40707@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Tue, 10 Oct 2017 10:14:37 +0200")
martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> writes:
>>>>> But perhaps we should simply stop showing vertical borders on
>>>>> graphical frames.
>>>>
>>>> Aren't they needed for resizing windows with a mouse?
>>>
>>> The majority of users probably has vertical scroll bars turned on, so
>>> they can't do that anyway.
>>
>> I'm confused: If I have a vertical scoll bar, there's a small vertical
>> bar just below the bottom of it that allows resizing the emacs window,
>> so why do scroll bars preclude resizing?
>
> The thing I would like to get rid of are the vertical borders. You can
> make them more prominently visible by evaluating
>
OK, now I get it.
> (custom-set-faces
> '(vertical-border ((t (:foreground "red")))))
> (scroll-bar-mode -1)
>
> with emacs -Q and typing C-x 3. You can resize your windows now by
> dragging that red vertical line.
>
> Notice that the "small vertical bar" you mention did not change color.
> In fact, that bar does not exist at all. You can make it "disappear" by
> resetting the face properties of ‘mode-line’ and ‘mode-line-inactive’ to
> the default face. It's an artefact that allows resizing windows even in
> the presence of scroll bars. It has not visual feedback but that of two
> boxes meeting each other on screen and a two arrows symbol that appears
> whenever the mouse cursor hovers above a nearby location.
Yes. In other GTK apps you can hold the mouse anywhere near the edge
of a scroll bar and resize it that way, but that's a feature for
another day.
Robert
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-10 8:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-25 20:19 bug#27830: 26.0.50; Left fringe gets truncated by a pixel in window not sharing that edge with frame Kaushal Modi
2017-07-26 7:53 ` martin rudalics
2017-10-03 20:19 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-10-04 9:04 ` martin rudalics
2017-10-04 13:47 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-10-04 13:54 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-10-05 8:11 ` martin rudalics
2017-10-05 8:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-05 11:59 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-10-06 8:17 ` martin rudalics
2017-10-06 9:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-07 8:08 ` martin rudalics
2017-10-07 8:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-07 9:44 ` martin rudalics
2017-10-07 9:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-09 7:59 ` martin rudalics
2017-10-09 8:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-09 12:21 ` martin rudalics
2017-10-09 12:53 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-10-10 8:12 ` martin rudalics
2017-10-09 13:41 ` Robert Pluim
2017-10-10 8:14 ` martin rudalics
2017-10-10 8:46 ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2017-10-11 8:33 ` martin rudalics
2020-09-04 5:25 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2017-10-05 8:10 ` martin rudalics
2017-10-05 8:29 ` martin rudalics
2017-10-05 11:51 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-10-06 8:18 ` martin rudalics
2017-10-05 11:46 ` Kaushal Modi
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