Re: scrollbar alternative

[David Engster]

Leo <address@hidden> writes:
> On 2010-03-15 17:28 +0000, David Engster wrote:
>> To me, the GTK scrollbars always behaved a bit strange in this regard,
>> anyway. For example, I think scrollbars should be hidden when there is
>> nothing to scroll, this way giving you an immediate optical hint that
>> you're currently seeing everything there is. But in Emacs, you can
>> always scroll the window until (window-start) reaches (point-max).
>>
>> Therefore, I also disabled the scrollbar and now use some code to get a
>> scrollbar-like display in the mode-line. I know there's
>> size-indication-mode, but I find an information like "13% of 2.8k" not
>> very helpful.
>
> Does your code just show the percentage in a fancy face?
>
> I turned off scrollbar too and use fringe arrows and percentage on the
> modeline. I tried your code but didn't notice any difference.

It displays the percentage and displays a moving bar, just like a
scrollbar, but you can't drag it. It should look something like this:

scroll-mode-line.jpg
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-David