> > the fact that the tick shows is also a bug.  notice the scroll bar.
> 
> What do you mean? You're showing no characters in the pane, the
> insertion point is after the last character.

yes, but you're not showing the line which includes the prompt.
either the tick and the prompt need displaying or neither do.  this
line is not long enough to wrap.

> Or do you want to have the ability to scroll beyond the end of your
> text, to have some imaginary scroll advance taking you out into the
> blue past the edge of the world?

bingo.

> Or do you want to disallow scrolling to just past the last character?
> How many characters would you say need to remain showing?

how about fixing the bug.  it's perfectly reasonable to have a blank
screen with 0 lines.  (an empty file, for example.)

- erik

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