[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kim F. Storm) writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michaël Cadilhac) writes: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michaël Cadilhac) writes: >> >>> I use a recent (3 days old) Emacs and have a very weird behavior >>> with scrollbars. As I don't use them normally, I don't know since >>> when it happens. >>> >>> $ emacs -Q with an X interface. >>> I then add enough newlines to make the scrollbars useful. >>> >>> Then I type some letters, like zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ; the >>> scrollbars then got bigger, and bigger. If I scroll down using my >>> mouse and those scrollbars, they return in a normal height ; but if >>> I type another character, the scrollbar then switch back to big >>> ones. >>> >>> I don't think it's the intended behavior. >> >> Is this not considered as a bug? I don't have any experience with >> scrollbars, so I don't know. > > Emacs adjusts the size of the scroll bar handle to reflect the > percentage of the buffer text which is visible in the current window. > The calculation is based on number of characters rather than lines, so > the handle changes size quite dramatically as you scroll if you have a > mixture of lots of empty lines and long lines.
That's weird and pretty unexpected. What's the rational? -- | Michaël `Micha' Cadilhac | Pour les 35-40 ans, l'humour | | Epita/LRDE Promo 2007 | c'est une plus-value. | | http://www.lrde.org/~cadilh_m | -- Guillaume L. | `-- - JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --' - --'
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