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Re: Allowing point to be outside the window?


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Allowing point to be outside the window?
Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2021 18:33:28 +0200

> From: dick <dick.r.chiang@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2021 09:17:41 -0500
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> When you bypass large state-heavy stanzas via "if allow-point-outside"
> in central functions like try_cursor_movement() and redisplay_window(),
> people (not you or EZ apparently) get scared.

Only people who have no clear idea about the overall structure of
redisplay_window can become nervous when they see such bypasses, as a
matter of principle, without considering what exactly is bypassed and
why.  A place to begin is by figuring out what does that "try" in
"try_cursor_movement" means.



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