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Re: git-gui: Long lines in commit message gets hidden, no scrollbar appears

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Birger Skogeng Pedersen <birger.sp@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 2, 2019, 18:51 UTC
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On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 7:58 PM Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com> wrote:
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> up to now, git-gui does not hide any scrollbars, if they are not
> needed. IMHO, I would keep it that way, as I don't like the flicker
> when it appears and disappears. Imagine you are typing in the bottom
> line and than you typed too much. The scrollbar appears, your input
> line jumps one up line (or is hidden behind the scrollbar), than you
> remove the too long line, the scrollbar disappears again and your
> input line jumps down again.
>
> Bert

FWIW I strongly agree with this. Invisible scrollbars that pop up (like you describe) are often quite annoying. I much prefer to just keep them visible all the time, and disabled when there is nothing to scroll.

Birger
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