Re: 23.0.60; Constant recentering with scroll-margin set

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Chong Yidong wrote:
> Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > * Ralf Angeli (2008-08-07) writes:
> >
> > > It could also be that this has to be fixed in Gnus.  I'm not sure, but I
> > > remember that there was a similar issue back in 2005 where some changes
> > > hat to be made in `gnus-article-next-page' and related functions in
> > > order to deal with some changes in the handling of `scroll-margin'.
> > Okay, the problem is the statement
> > (move-to-window-line -1)
> > in `gnus-article-next-page'.  If `scroll-margin' is set and greater than
> > 0 it will lead to a recentering.  This is usually countered by
> > `gnus-article-next-page-1', but not at the end of an article where
> > `gnus-article-next-page-1' will not be called.
> >
> > The problem can be circumvented by changing the above statement to
> > (move-to-window-line (- -1 scroll-margin))
> >
> > Let me know if the recentering behavior will stay like it is now, then
> > I can report this to the Gnus maintainers.
>
> What do people think?  When there is a scroll-margin, should
> move-to-window-line automagically move to the scroll-margin instead of
> recentering?

Yes. Automatic recentering is very disturbing IMO.