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Re: The unwarranted scrolling assumption


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: The unwarranted scrolling assumption
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 00:18:53 +0300

> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 21:10:28 +0200
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
> >> Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 19:58:39 +0200
> >> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> >>
> >> > The problem I tried to solve was the one you reported at the beginning
> >> > of this thread: evaluate this:
> >> >
> >> >    (setq scroll-preserve-screen-position 'always
> >> >          scroll-conservatively           most-positive-fixnum
> >> >          scroll-step                     0)
> >> >
> >> > and then visit window.c and press and hold the <down> arrow key.  You
> >> > said that sometimes you see display being recentered, i.e. you see the
> >> > cursor near the middle of the window, instead of it being at the last
> >> > screen line.
> >>
> >>
> >> Then I am afraid the patch is plain wrong.
> >
> > Did you try it?
> 
> Why do you ask?

Because only by trying and reporting the results you can prove that
the changes I installed do not fix the problem.

> It does not at all address the original problem.

I think it does, except that you interpret the ``original problem''
incorrectly.




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