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can someone explain to me what the minimap is? other than a very big scrollbar? Every damn editor since sublime has this useless "feature", annoying.

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I don't think it should ever be on by default but I do find it useful situationally, when scrolling through very large files (which ideally you want to avoid in your codebase in the first place) and when I don't necessarily have a specific search term or keyword in mind.

> I don't think it should ever be on by default

Yet every single one of them has it on by default (not even autohide by default). As if they're afraid the user finds out how useless it is.

You're overthinking this. It's on by default because many users now expect it and it's surprising (at least to me as an Emacs user) how little people tend to dive into configuring their editors.

I guess it also looks kind of neat.

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