Elephanting Visual Studio Code

[Forogar]

See also my rant: The Lounge[^] which includes complaints about invisible scroll bars.

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[Richard Deeming]

vscode settings - Make horizontal scrollbar more visible in Visual Studio code - Stack Overflow[^] vscode settings - How to make scrollbars wider in Visual Studio Code? - Stack Overflow[^] You'll need to manually open %APPDATA%\Code\User\settings.json, since the settings editor doesn't know about these properties.

{
...
"editor.scrollbar.horizontal": "visible",
"editor.scrollbar.horizontalScrollbarSize": 20
}

That at least makes it taller and always visible.

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[dandy72]

Rage wrote:

This is the standard behaviour also for any vertical Windows (as in Windows OS) scrollbar. And is terribly annoying - who the elephant wants auto hiding scrollbars ???

The same people who thought turning Windows into a tablet OS was a good idea. They still haven't turned the clock back far enough.

[Marc Clifton]

Cool. A crappy workaround (now I have a scrollbar 20 pixels high, yes I could make it shorter) for stupid UX design. But not wanting to shoot the messenger, thank you! :-D

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[Mike Hankey]

It's as frustrating as spending 20 minutes trying to find your glasses when they're on top of your head. Dammit now I forgot what I was going to do.

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[Mark_Wallace]

Mike Hankey wrote:

It's as frustrating as spending 20 minutes trying to find your glasses when they're on top of your head. Dammit now I forgot what I was going to do.

WE have the advanced technology required to ameliorate that problem. It's called "a piece of string".

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[Mike Hankey]

I'll have to research the string thing. :)

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[raddevus]

I was so going to rant about this a few months ago when I started using VSC (Visual Studio Code). You explain the problem exactly. It takes a moment for it to appear and in that moment you click the edge of the window!!!! :mad::mad::mad::mad: It's so annoying!!!

[Cp Coder]

???? My VS2019 is up to date and shows the horizontal scroll bar by default. :confused:

[Paddington Bear]

How to keep scrollbars always visible on Windows 10 April 2018 Update[^] This is one of the first things I do on a new Win 10 machine/installation. I've not yet found a way to stop those auto reboots after updates...

It goes without saying

[Stefan_Lang]

Or just resize your window across three monitors: when your editor is 5000 pixels wide, you won't need a scroll bar. ;P

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[nedo_007]

But .. why do you need to see the scroll bar? Simply hold Shift and use the scroll wheel to scroll horizontally

[t j home]

this has absolutely MADE MY DAY - who knew that shift-scroll was even a thing - thank you

[alang_icon]

Yay, editing obscure json config files to get it to do (almost) exactly what you want - Windows is slowly, but surely, turning into Linux!

[Greg Utas]

Won't work for me. My wife took over my large desk, so I use my laptop on a little one! She has two monitors, so I'll thank you not to give her any ideas! :laugh:

[Jeroen_R]

That specific json isn't really obscure. It's the one that is behind the settings screen (user tab)

[obermd]

XEROX PARC established visible scroll bars whenever the display area was larger than the window. This is a great visual that there's more information than can be displayed. Whoever decided it was a good idea to change this design is an idiot.

[maze3]

I think it was IE that had a resized scroll bar when hover over it. A design decision that for some seems great, but for me control elements with shape transforms are just distracting

[agolddog]

Yeah, auto-hidden scrollbars are the worst. I want an at-a-glance indication if there's more context I need to be aware of.

[markchagers]

If you happen to have a mouse wheel you can use it to scroll horizontally by holding the shift key down. Saves a lot of headaches. (so beat me to this, I see now, oh well). The delay for the hover to pop up can be adjusted in settings: "editor.hover.delay": 300,