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<p>The only way then would be to change the width of that margin depending on which lines are shown, which is likely to be annoying behavior when near a boundary</p>
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<p>+1. Even when going from 9 to 10 lines or 999 to 1000 lines I find the automatic adjustment distracting, it would much more so if it happened while scrolling.</p>

<p>Moreover, in terse languages like Perl, I would imagine a 100,000 line file would be extremely rare (unless auto-generated or something).</p>

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