Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> From: "Drew Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 07:44:41 -0700
>>
>> On most applications, scroll bars appear only when there is text to
>> scroll - that is, they appear only when needed.
>
> That's slightly inaccurate: the vertical scroll bar does not
> disappear, at least not in all GUI applications. What happens is that
> the scroll-bar _thumb_ disappears. If this can be easily done in
That is true, but nevertheless I have the impression that nowadays the
described behaviour of Drew Adams is the standard in most Guis
(e. g. Firefox, Gimp).
> Emacs, perhaps we should do that too, but I wouldn't press for it
> before the release.
I personally couldn't care less (scroll-bar-mode nil). But for
somebody using scroll bars it represents a consistent, additional
visual help.
A new or casual Emacs user would expect this behaviour.
--
Best wishes
Dieter Wilhelm
Darmstadt, Germany
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