Elephanting Visual Studio Code
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Paddington Bear wrote:
Why don't you just disable the scrollbar auto-hide? Or am I missing something?
Googling exactly that, it doesn't seem possible. The most recent post I found talks about making it taller and a different color, but being able to always show it is one of those features people want but nobody has implemented. Apparently. My google-fu could be off.
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Abusing Extension Methods, Null Continuation, and Null Coalescence OperatorsHow 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
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Apparently some recent update made the horizontal scrollbar "auto-hide". So first you have to mouse-hover near it. But then the "resize window" up/down arrow shows up. It appears there is about a 2 pixel high region near the top of the horizontal scrollbar that is actually useable. I remember when these hidden scrollbars showed up in Ubuntu. Pretty much the reason I ditched Ubuntu. Such a time waster. Move mouse, hover, wait, click, oops, moved mouse when clicked, repeat.
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But .. why do you need to see the scroll bar? Simply hold Shift and use the scroll wheel to scroll horizontally
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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.{
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"editor.scrollbar.horizontal": "visible",
"editor.scrollbar.horizontalScrollbarSize": 20
}That at least makes it taller and always visible.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
Yay, editing obscure json config files to get it to do (almost) exactly what you want - Windows is slowly, but surely, turning into Linux!
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Or just resize your window across three monitors: when your editor is 5000 pixels wide, you won't need a scroll bar. ;P
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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Yay, editing obscure json config files to get it to do (almost) exactly what you want - Windows is slowly, but surely, turning into Linux!
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Apparently some recent update made the horizontal scrollbar "auto-hide". So first you have to mouse-hover near it. But then the "resize window" up/down arrow shows up. It appears there is about a 2 pixel high region near the top of the horizontal scrollbar that is actually useable. I remember when these hidden scrollbars showed up in Ubuntu. Pretty much the reason I ditched Ubuntu. Such a time waster. Move mouse, hover, wait, click, oops, moved mouse when clicked, repeat.
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Abusing Extension Methods, Null Continuation, and Null Coalescence Operators -
Apparently some recent update made the horizontal scrollbar "auto-hide". So first you have to mouse-hover near it. But then the "resize window" up/down arrow shows up. It appears there is about a 2 pixel high region near the top of the horizontal scrollbar that is actually useable. I remember when these hidden scrollbars showed up in Ubuntu. Pretty much the reason I ditched Ubuntu. Such a time waster. Move mouse, hover, wait, click, oops, moved mouse when clicked, repeat.
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Abusing Extension Methods, Null Continuation, and Null Coalescence Operators -
Apparently some recent update made the horizontal scrollbar "auto-hide". So first you have to mouse-hover near it. But then the "resize window" up/down arrow shows up. It appears there is about a 2 pixel high region near the top of the horizontal scrollbar that is actually useable. I remember when these hidden scrollbars showed up in Ubuntu. Pretty much the reason I ditched Ubuntu. Such a time waster. Move mouse, hover, wait, click, oops, moved mouse when clicked, repeat.
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Abusing Extension Methods, Null Continuation, and Null Coalescence Operators -
Apparently some recent update made the horizontal scrollbar "auto-hide". So first you have to mouse-hover near it. But then the "resize window" up/down arrow shows up. It appears there is about a 2 pixel high region near the top of the horizontal scrollbar that is actually useable. I remember when these hidden scrollbars showed up in Ubuntu. Pretty much the reason I ditched Ubuntu. Such a time waster. Move mouse, hover, wait, click, oops, moved mouse when clicked, repeat.
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Abusing Extension Methods, Null Continuation, and Null Coalescence OperatorsIf 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,
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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.
Paddington Bear wrote:
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.
It goes without saying
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Paddington Bear wrote:
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.
It goes without saying
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Apparently some recent update made the horizontal scrollbar "auto-hide". So first you have to mouse-hover near it. But then the "resize window" up/down arrow shows up. It appears there is about a 2 pixel high region near the top of the horizontal scrollbar that is actually useable. I remember when these hidden scrollbars showed up in Ubuntu. Pretty much the reason I ditched Ubuntu. Such a time waster. Move mouse, hover, wait, click, oops, moved mouse when clicked, repeat.
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Apparently some recent update made the horizontal scrollbar "auto-hide". So first you have to mouse-hover near it. But then the "resize window" up/down arrow shows up. It appears there is about a 2 pixel high region near the top of the horizontal scrollbar that is actually useable. I remember when these hidden scrollbars showed up in Ubuntu. Pretty much the reason I ditched Ubuntu. Such a time waster. Move mouse, hover, wait, click, oops, moved mouse when clicked, repeat.
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Abusing Extension Methods, Null Continuation, and Null Coalescence OperatorsThe bigger problem is that SHIFT+WHEEL doesn't do horizontal scroll (at least on VS2019 16.0.3). The even bigger problem is that SHIFT+WHEEL doesn't work in Excel as well. But what can I expect from the company that waited until 2018 to give us the ability to save CSVs in Unicode format...
