Re:A Firefox-Only Minimap
by eek2121 on Monday July 17, 2023 @09:43AM
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I leave it on. It acts as a larger scrollbar when I use the mouse/trackpad/whatever pointing device to scroll. Operating systems these days are all about hiding the scrollbar and/or making it as small as possible. The minimap not only solves that issue, but also gives a bit of a visual representation of the file contents. Sure, you can't read the text, but if you've worked with a file long enough, you know exactly what you are looking at.
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I just use the scroll wheel / touch pad, especially the one on Apple's mouse is really intutive. But I also try to not have my files get too large, or use the search function to quickly scroll to somewhere I know.
I do all that. But sometimes I find myself editing a file I did not edit. Sometimes that file is large. Actually, that seems to happen a lot.
Re:A Firefox-Only Minimap
by oneeyedpigeon on Monday July 17, 2023 @11:06AM
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I think probably most of us use the scroll wheel (or equivalent) to scroll, but the advantage of the visible scroll bar is the immediate feedback of both document length and current location.
It's closer to proper width of the scrollbar than many modern ones :)
I disable it. I like vsc to be minimal like vim. I even use Vim extensions which help me avoid using scroll bar and use crtl-D/u/e/y instead.
Isn't it funny that scrollbars are deemed too space-wasting to make a reasonable size anymore, but there's plenty of space for nonsense like minimaps?
Bring back actual scrollbars! Or at least make it possible to turn them on.
Re:A Firefox-Only Minimap
by sangriafria on Monday July 17, 2023 @05:49PM
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The irony is that the future of scrollbars, especially with narrow webpages and wide monitors, could have been minimaps. But instead we got disappearing scrollbars and reading indicators…
> Operating systems these days are all about hiding the scrollbar and/or making it as small as possible.
At least while coding this is actually pretty old school to have no scrollbar at all. My emacs has no gui elements. I dont need them. I see a 89% to know where I am right now but this information is actually not really useful.
I move expression/function/method/bookmark wise for and backward or I just search and leave marks where I to jump back later. I really avoid touching my mouse and my window manager (xmonad) and development environment are entirely keyboard driven. I tried minmaps, its just distracting eye candy maybe a bit usefull while reviewing a codebase or looking for something.