I am using IntelliJ IDEA 2024.3.2.2 (Community Edition), and the Cody: AI Code Assistant plugin recently updated to 7.100.0. Much to my dismay, the scroll bar for the chat was missing. This is something that I regularly use to scroll back when my prompt asks Cody to produce multiple solutions. Looking through the differences from the most recent release, Cody for JetBrains v7.96.0, based on tag jb-v7.96.0, with the most recent tag, jb-v7.100.0, I cam across this commit, [Backport M100] fix(chat): chat transcript scrolling (#8022) · sourcegraph/cody@553d7a2 · GitHub, that says it hides the scrollbar in the chat transcript among other changes.
While I can understand the intent to reduce or avoid the autoscrolling mentioned in the change, hiding the scrollbar seems like a change that should not have been made.
I think a better solution would be to have a configuration option that would allow a user to hide the scrollbar if desired, with a default of having the scrollbar showing. If that is not possible, then I would ask that the scrollbar still remain available even if the autoscrolling code is still in place.
I use Cody in IntelliJ IDEA almost daily, and not having the scroll bar in the chat is costing me a lot of additional time that I did not have to spend before when I could just drag the scroll bar. While I can use the page up and down buttons, it is not nearly as precise or quick as being able to drag the scroll bar.
I am asking that the scroll bar to be added back to the chat transcript.
