From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dani Moncayo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#8868: 24.0.50; Scroll bar in the minibuffer Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:06:13 +0200 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1308151445 9995 80.91.229.12 (15 Jun 2011 15:24:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:24:05 +0000 (UTC) To: 8868@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 15 17:24:01 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QWrwn-0002tU-3e for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:24:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47949 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QWrwl-0000Zq-Op for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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b=fg8E6p2HlbYhlPBd78ICVcKnyxFGSmRP2hFX4Y7knwMzDO5e67KeVgqkJ/BRFMS22J aJog0xZR00WYdubGmPSowbJqqtMXFHCRBEWL89nHS8KMgfgSsy/iECAEhfKX7x9cvnFZ ZKVp7fBsxc4yeYsd5a5ZXT6jH5wiSrxpUsi3Q= Original-Received: by 10.91.47.23 with SMTP id z23mr827323agj.181.1308146773781; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 07:06:13 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.90.105.17 with HTTP; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 07:06:13 -0700 (PDT) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:07:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:47181 Archived-At: 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' -- Dani Moncayo