Re: query-replace and the bottom of the screen

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
> Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2017 14:00:33 +0200
> 
> When I start emacs -q and run
> query-replace, say like this
> 
> 
> (query-replace "this" "this" nil nil nil nil nil)
> then everything works like expected:
> 
> Text with  expression «this» which is in the middle of my screen is
> presented in the middle of the screen:
> 
> And I am asked to replace it.
> 
> However when I start emacs with my init file, open a file which covers
> various screen pages
> and do
> (query-replace "this" "this" nil nil nil nil nil)
> 
> The cursor always jumps to the bottom of the screen and asks me to
> replace. This makes it difficult to see the context of the change.
> This misbehavior must be caused by some of my setting. But what could it
> be.

Do you perhaps have scroll-conservatively set to a value larger than
100?  If so, Emacs is behaving like you requested.