Transparency / resizability?

[davidawad]

Hi! Is it possible for the map to be transparent? Or resizable? When splitting panes right and left you end up losing a lot of screen real estate.

Please let me know. Thanks!

[abe33]

Hi, actually minimap is transparent, but you can make it opaque using CSS. But maybe you're talking about making it overlay above the editor's content? In that case, take a look at the absolute mode setting in the minimap setting view.

As for resizing, there's two modes here:

• The basic one, where the width of the minimap is proportional to the editor's width. This is defined using CSS so you can use an absolute value if needed.
• And one that uses the preferred line length setting when soft wrap is enabled to fix the size of the minimap and that can be enabled using the adjust minimap width to soft wrap setting. Note that in that case, the minimap will always use the smallest size (that means that hen you split panes it may fallback using the CSS width).

I haven't considered making the minimap dynamically resizable using a drag gesture, it'ld probably would cost but I'll take a look at wha it implies.

[aaronmoodie]

hey @abe33, is there a way to extend the theme's css background color for minimap? As opposed to explicitly setting it to a value, which will need to be changed if the theme is changed.

[abe33]

@aaronmoodie You mean doing something like this?

atom-text-editor::shadow atom-text-editor-minimap {
  background: @syntax-background-color;
}

[przem-ko]

Please, also consider an option to have a minimap auto-resized vertically, so it would eliminate a need to scroll it. This is how minimap works in Kate editor, and it makes the map a really fast tool for jumping between various places in large source files, despite it being less accurate that way.