Show indicator of scroll level

[Jackymancs4]

Hello @makeworld-the-better-one

I found myself reading a very long gemini post recently (for reference: gemini://l-3.space/split-keys.gmi ) and it came up in my mind that it would be nice to now how long until I reach the end.

As a possible idea, splitting the bottom status bar in two, where on the left there is the bar as there is now, and aligned on the right there is somenthing like number_bottom_line:number_of_lines_in_document or some form of percentage.

Ideally some form of scroll bar (vertical) or reading progress bar (horizontal).

[makew0rld]

This is a good idea, thanks. The underlying TUI library Amfora uses, cview supports scrollbars for some things, but not just text views, like pages are. I've opened up issue 34 to see if that could be supported.

Having some stats in the bottom right is a good solution, I like it a lot, for all kinds of things potentially (meta string, for example). Unfortunately, the current object for the bottom bar is an InputField, which will make adding arbitrary right-aligned text not straight-forward. Definitely possible though, so I will look into it at some point.

[makew0rld]

This is a good idea, thanks. The underlying TUI library Amfora uses, cview supports scrollbars for some things, but not just text views, like pages are. I've opened up issue 34 to see if that could be supported.

Issue 34 has been closed, scrollbars for text views are now supported in cview commit 441992fd.

I plan on updating the cview dependency to support to this feature, and adding a new config option to turn it on and off. I'm thinking of leaving it on by default, but open to hearing opinions on that.

[bouncepaw]

I like vim's approach to this. It shows Top on top of document, Bot on bottom and percentage in other cases. It's quite handy and intuitive (if you rename Bot to Btm or 100%).

[makew0rld]

scrollbars for text views are now supported in cview

I plan on updating the cview dependency to support to this feature, and adding a new config option to turn it on and off.

This will be added in #107.

[makew0rld]

@Jackymancs4 You mentioned an approach using line numbers originally, and @bouncepaw you mentioned percentages. While the scroll bar method mentioned above is still planned, I will also be adding support for these other methods as part of an info bar. See #142 and feel free to comment there.

cc @pixdrift