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24.0.50; Scroll bar in the minibuffer

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>, 8868 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8868: 24.0.50; Scroll bar in the minibuffer
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2019 10:54:30 +0200

tags 8868 fixed
close 8868 27.1
quit

> What is the point of having a vertical scroll bar in the minibuffer?
> How often is the minibuffer high enough to need it?
>
> I see it as something useless, aesthetically awful, a waste of
> horizontal space in the minibuffer.
>
> Thus, I'd like to suggest either to remove it, or, if someone sees a
> reason to keep it, control its visibility with its own
> variable/command (different from `scroll-bar-mode').

It's now possible to do the latter reliably by adding the following
form

(add-hook 'after-make-frame-functions
          (lambda (frame)
            (set-window-scroll-bars
             (minibuffer-window frame) 0 nil 0 nil t)))

to the early init file.  I added a corresponding example to the Elisp
manual and mark this bug as done.

Thanks, martin

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