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Re: Side windows


From: Juri Linkov
Subject: Re: Side windows
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 23:48:07 +0300
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

>>   ** Compilation error navigation bar, parallel to the scroll bar,
>>   indicating where in the buffer there are compilation errors.
>>   Perhaps we could arrange to display these error indications on top
>>   of the scroll bar itself.  That depends on to what extent toolkit
>>   scroll bars are extensible.
>>
>> If it's possible to display such tab-like indications
>> on the scroll bar, is it still called a scroll bar?
>>
>> If it's not possible, then what is an alternative?
>> Maybe, 1-column side bar windows?
>
> WinMerge and KDiff3 have a "sort of" scrollbar with transparent thumb
> used to indicate (and jump to) the regions with differences.
>
> See picture.

This is definitely impossible to do in fringes with today's code.
But using the same technique as is used by palette.el
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ColorPalette to create pseudo-graphics
in a side window it should be doable.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/




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