Re: vertical scroll bar should disappear if everything is displayed

[Dieter Wilhelm]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: "Drew Adams" <address@hidden>
>> 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