Re: Gtk scrollbar: thumb too short

[Stefan Monnier]

>   * How should you display scrolling past the end?
> 
>       - In Emacs 21.3 (current CVS):  by displaying the whole thumb,
>         until last character of the buffer is in the top line of the
>         window.  
> 
>         This means that in a short buffer, such as the initial
>         *Messages* buffer in a plain Emacs 21.3 started with
> 
>             emacs -q --no-site-file --eval '(blink-cursor-mode 0)'
> 
>         the thumb does *not* show it is displaying `all' of the
>         buffer, but shows the post-end-of-buffer empty lines too.
> 
>       - In Emacs 20.7:  by letting the scroll bar `sink' into the
>         space below it, so it gets smaller and smaller, until the last
>         character of the buffer is in the top line of the window.
> 
> I prefer the Emacs 20.7 way of doing it; that way, I don't think of
> the thumb as telling me that the buffer is larger than it really is.

It's also the 21.3 behavior, except in Motif.


        Stefan