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From: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: scrollbar alternative
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:41:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xbailjdt4bjy.fsf@cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2634xqyu7.fsf@imac-c2.pc.gwdg.de

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.

Leo





  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-03-15 19:41 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 [this message]
2010-03-15 20:18     ` David Engster
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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