Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> This BUG is a continuation of this help-gnu-emacs mailing list
>> thread [1]. As mentioned in the thread, I ran into a terminal flickering
>> issue in flycheck which turns out to be caused by `recenter'
>> redisplaying the frame when `recenter-redisplay' value is either `t' or
>> `tty'. I agree with the arguments in the thread to maintain the backward
>> compatible behavior. Instead, I'm proposing one of the following
>> alternatives:
>
> Indeed, most/all uses from Elisp shouldn't redisplay.
>
>> 1. introduce a new lisp function for recentering and discourage the use
>> of `recenter' from lisp (i.e. declaring it `interactive-only'), or
>> 2. add a new `recenter-and-redisplay' and bound it to C-l
>> Also, Stefan's suggestion/possible solution:
>> 3. adding an argument to `recenter' to control the redisplay behavior
>
> Either of those is OK.  The benefit of the 3rd is that it would likely
> "magically fix" 99% of the existing uses (I'm thinking of adding an
> optional argument which we could call `and-redisplay` which when non-nil
> tells recenter to do a redisplay, so all existing Elisp calls would be
> implicitly modified not to cause a redisplay).

I ended up going with option 3. I also used `redisplay` instead of
`and-redisplay`. I felt the `and` is redundant, not sure how strongly
you feel about the name.