On most applications, scroll bars appear only when there is text to scroll - that is, they appear only when needed. Emacs should behave normally in this regard.
In a buffer whose text does not fill the full window vertically, the vertical scroll bar should disappear. It does not, at least on Windows. This is annoying and a waste of screen real estate. Similarly, there should be the possibility (via an option) of having a horizontal scroll bar appear when text would otherwise wrap or be truncated, as an alternative to, for example, fringe. When lines are displayed completely, with no wrapping or truncation, then the horizontal scroll bar should disappear. This is standard behavior in most apps, and it is more comfortable for the user. At the least, users should be able to choose this more common behavior. In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2006-03-20 on W2ONE X server distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600 configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --cflags -Id:/g/include' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: ENU locale-coding-system: cp1252 default-enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Dired by name Minor modes in effect: encoded-kbd-mode: t tooltip-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t utf-translate-cjk-mode: t line-number-mode: t Recent input: <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu> <report-emacs-bug> Recent messages: (C:\Emacs-22-2006-03-20\bin\emacs.exe -q --no-site-file --debug-init C:\drews-lisp-20) Loading encoded-kb...done For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p. Loading dired... Loading regexp-opt...done Loading dired...done Loading emacsbug...done _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug
