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From: David Engster <deng@randomsample.de>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: scrollbar alternative
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:18:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vdcxwd7r.fsf@engster.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xbailjdt4bjy.fsf@cam.ac.uk> (Leo's message of "Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:41:53 +0000")

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Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:
> On 2010-03-15 17:28 +0000, David Engster wrote:
>> To me, the GTK scrollbars always behaved a bit strange in this regard,
>> anyway. For example, I think scrollbars should be hidden when there is
>> nothing to scroll, this way giving you an immediate optical hint that
>> you're currently seeing everything there is. But in Emacs, you can
>> always scroll the window until (window-start) reaches (point-max).
>>
>> Therefore, I also disabled the scrollbar and now use some code to get a
>> scrollbar-like display in the mode-line. I know there's
>> size-indication-mode, but I find an information like "13% of 2.8k" not
>> very helpful.
>
> Does your code just show the percentage in a fancy face?
>
> I turned off scrollbar too and use fringe arrows and percentage on the
> modeline. I tried your code but didn't notice any difference.

It displays the percentage and displays a moving bar, just like a
scrollbar, but you can't drag it. It should look something like this:


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-David

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-15 20:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-15 16:38 scrollbar alternative joakim
2010-03-15 17:28 ` David Engster
2010-03-15 18:20   ` Drew Adams
2010-03-15 19:57     ` David Engster
2010-03-15 19:41   ` Leo
2010-03-15 20:18     ` David Engster [this message]
2010-03-16  3:12       ` Zhu, Shenli
2010-03-16  4:34         ` Drew Adams
2010-03-16  6:24           ` Zhu, Shenli
2010-03-16 12:44           ` Lennart Borgman
2010-03-16 15:40             ` Drew Adams
2010-03-16 15:43               ` Lennart Borgman
2010-03-16 16:10                 ` Drew Adams
2010-03-16 16:53                   ` Lennart Borgman
2010-03-16 16:54                 ` Deniz Dogan
2010-03-29 19:47             ` Progress indicator (was: scrollbar alternative) Leo
2010-03-29 19:54               ` Lennart Borgman
2010-03-29 21:30                 ` Leo
2010-03-29 21:32                   ` Lennart Borgman
2010-03-29 21:47                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-15 18:36 ` scrollbar alternative Deniz Dogan

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