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Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> writes:

> Most widget packages keep the moveable scrollbar button to a fixed
> size depending on buffer size, Emacs resizes the scrollbar button
> according to some algorithm I've never grasped the intuition of.

I believe it's sized according to the percentage of _characters_
currently visible, not lines (for efficiency reasons?).  This means
the scrollbar knob will be slightly larger when you're looking a
portion of the buffer that has longer lines (i.e. more characters)
than some other portion of the buffer.

Of course, this breaks the Windows NT scrollbar, which doesn't
dynamically resize itself when adjusted.  Thus, you can't always
scroll to the very beginning or very end of the buffer using the NT
scrollbar alone.  :-(

Sam
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