bug#8355: 24.0.50; Boxes in mode-line and scrolling

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Antoine Levitt <antoine.levitt@gmail.com> writes:

> Here's a reproducer from emacs -Q (just reproduced on 27.1):
>
> Set
> (setq scroll-conservatively 100000000)
> (setq scroll-preserve-screen-position 'stay)
>
> Open a latex file of some complexity (with sections and math, for
> instance https://arxiv.org/e-print/2003.00726, but it works on any tex
> file), and make sure it's in latex-mode. Go somewhere in the middle of
> the file, center point (C-l), then scroll up then down (C-v and M-v).

Yup; I can reproduce this in Emacs 28 -- point moves around a lot when
paging back and forth.

> I traced it down to
> lines of varying heights: it disappears if I set
> (setq font-latex-fontify-script nil)
> (setq font-latex-fontify-sectioning 'color)

Yes, I guess this is due to the mixture of line heights in that
buffer -- when it's computing how many lines to scroll back and forth,
it's not being consistent when going forward and backward.

Eli, does this sound familiar to you?

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