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i don't have a mac - but a scroll bar does two things, allow scrolling and show scroll position.

does the mouse cursor disappear when not being moved? does the text in a terminal disappear when not being edited?

seems like dual function elements where one function is indication should be exempt...

On macOS the convention is for the mouse cursor to disappear when you start typing.

I miss this behavior all the time when using Windows. I recently discovered that Windows actually has a setting to enable this behavior, but it's up to each individual application to check for the setting and implement the behavior. And as far as I can tell, literally no one does.

On a similar note, I get annoyed with how Excel won't show the highlighted row or cell when moving focus to another window. Sometimes I want to look at that specific row while using another program, and it's hard to find the data that was just highlighted when that disappears. I don't for the life of me understand what problem that behavior is supposed to help with.

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