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23.1.90; gnus vs. scrollbar when message fills whole window

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From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac <at> gmx.de>
To: jidanni <at> jidanni.org, 5289 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  ding <at> gnus.org
Subject: bug#5289: 23.1.90; gnus vs. scrollbar when message fills whole window
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2010 13:16:37 +0100

merge 4425 5289
thanks

On 2010-01-02 12:13 +0100, Reiner Steib wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 01 2010, jidanni <at> jidanni.org wrote:
>
>> X-debbugs-cc: ding <at> gnus.org
>
> [ Didn't work, AFAICS?  Adding it manually. ]
>
>> Here the whole message is in the lower window, but the scrollbar
>> fools the user into thinking he can scroll more.
>>
>> Maybe the scrollbar is being computed on invisible header text.
>
> I think this is a bug or limitation in either Emacs or the toolkit
> providing the scrollbars (GTK).  I don't think anything can (should)
> be done on the Gnus side.

Indeed.  BTW, the issue had been reported previously -- guess by whom? ;-)

Cheers,
       Sven

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