macvim-dev / macvim-dev/macvim
[Feature Request] Automatically show and hide scroll bar
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Description
If you go to Setting - General on macOS, you have the following option to show/hide scroll bars.

You can see how this works by using Finder with the different options.
This also has an effect on most of the macOS applications but not on MacVim.
Are there any plans to add this? Or maybe start by implementing options that have to be set manually in MacVim?
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Research direction
The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by locating MacVim's scrollbar handling and compare its behavior with Finder under macOS's General scrollbar settings. Done means MacVim automatically follows the selected show/hide scrollbar behavior.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- macos, vim
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100