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bug #57956: [Wish] a scroll bar on the right that shows position and portion

Submitter:  Benno Schulenberg <bens>
Submitted:  Thu 05 Mar 2020 10:39:13 AM UTC
   
 
Severity:  1 - Wish Status:  Fixed
Assigned to:  bens Open/Closed:  Closed

Thu 30 Jul 2020 07:12:56 AM UTC, comment #4: 

Released in nano-5.0.

Benno Schulenberg <bens>
Group administrator
Thu 04 Jun 2020 05:47:30 PM UTC, comment #3: 

Fixed in git, by commit b33a62af, plus the subsequent 6bccedb3 to make it work also with --softwrap.

Benno Schulenberg <bens>
Group administrator
Sun 26 Apr 2020 05:35:31 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Attached patch (based on the work of Marco) gives a basic scroll bar -- but only when not softwrapping.

(file #48940)

Benno Schulenberg <bens>
Group administrator
Thu 05 Mar 2020 10:55:58 AM UTC, comment #1: 

(Exit from fte with M-X.)

Benno Schulenberg <bens>
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Thu 05 Mar 2020 10:39:13 AM UTC, original submission:  

While searching the mailing list for posts about feedback in the titele bar, I found also this: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/nano-devel/2018-03/msg00040.html.  The arrows and the percentage are a rather limited and non-visual way of showing where the cursor is in in a file.  A real scrollbar, like fte has, would be... more useful, more understandable, does not require interpreting a percentage.  And the length of the "thing" shows how much of the file is being shown on the screen.

(Don't click with the mouse on fte's scroll thing, because fte will get stuck: every subsequent keystroke will do whatever the mouse click did.)

Benno Schulenberg <bens>
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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2020-07-30 bens Open/ClosedOpen Closed
    2020-06-04 bens StatusIn Progress Fixed
    2020-04-26 bens Attached File- Added 0001-possible-new-feature-a-position-portion-indicator-on.patch, #48940
        StatusNone In Progress
        Assigned toNone bens

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