[Github-comments] [geany] Horizontal scroll bar is far wider than longest line in the file (#886)

[Colomban Wendling]

> Why is "somebody" in quotes? If anyone wants to implement this, it would be most welcome, IMO.

Well, it's easy enough to implement naively, and I gave it a shot for fun: https://github.com/b4n/geany-auto-scroll-width.  It's a little more tricky to auto-hide the bottom scrollbar, but also doable.

But getting a version with zero performance impact would probably be a lot harder to do, and I guess would require altering Scintilla itself to store layout length in the line data itself, plus a global per-document value, and only re-compute the max width when the line changed width and had the largest width (if new width is larger, just update using this new value, instead find the new largest).

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