Re: Gtk scrollbar: thumb too short

[Andreas Schwab]

Owen Taylor <address@hidden> writes:

|> Thoughts here, in no particular order:
|> 
|>  * I've always found the emacs behavior with respect to the end of the
|>    buffer quite confusing personally... I think it would be far
|>    less confusing if the region that was scrolled was actually
|>    confined to the lines of the buffer (or maybe lines in buffer + 1)

I find this behaviour very convenient when scrolling through the buffer,
because the bottom line before scrolling is always
next-screen-context-lines down the top after scrolling.  This makes it
very easy to continue reading, and it is consistent with the behaviour of
vi and less.

|>    It's very easily in emacs's default configuration currently to 
|>    accidentally create text files with lots of trailing blank lines
|>    since there is no visual differentiation between blank lines and
|>    overscrolled space.

Use indicate-empty-lines.

Andreas.

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