On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 8:22 AM Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Am 04.09.19 um 22:43 schrieb Bert Wesarg: > > these people did not saw the entered text anyway. they would have > > needed to change the option (default to 75 characters) to see what > > they have typed. which could have been garbage to begin with. > > Huh? When I type overly long line, all text scrolls out of view on the > left side. So I definitely _can_ see the long text. wrong memory bank, sorry. Though imagine you paste in some multi line text, and one line is too long but the next not. In this case you wont see the too long part anymore. > > > How about a horizontal scrollbar? This indicates pretty conveniently > > and in a standard visual way, that there is more text to the side ;-) > > The scrollbar is an option, of course, but I dislike somewhat that it > takes away screen space if it is permanently visible. I already argued against an auto-hide scrollbar, which was also acked by ohers: On 02.09.19 19:58, Bert Wesarg wrote: > On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 7:35 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> True, and that reasoning would justify hiding scrollbar when not >> necessary to gain vertical space. Can we arrange the scrollbar to >> appear only when needed? > > 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. > > -- Hannes
