From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 13791@debbugs.gnu.org, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Subject: bug#13791: 24.3.50; scroll-margin docstring says "recenter"
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 18:28:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87shaoi6sn.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83hal3l4ez.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 23 Feb 2013 12:18:12 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
>> Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 04:21:24 +0400
>>
>> The docstring says: "Recenter the window whenever point gets within this
>> many lines of the top or bottom of the window."
>>
>> That's not entirely accurate. Depending on the value of
>> `scroll-conservatively', the window may get scrolled instead.
>
> That's true. However, how to describe this in a manner that will not
> confuse the reader is less clear. "Recenter or scroll" is not very
> useful, IMO, as it doesn't say which will happen. Suggestions are
> welcome.
Can't we just add a sentence? "Depending the value of
`scroll-conservatively', the window may be scrolled instead of
recentered." The details in `scroll-conservatively's docstring should
give sufficient accuracy.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-29 23:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-23 0:21 bug#13791: 24.3.50; scroll-margin docstring says "recenter" Dmitry Gutov
2013-02-23 10:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-02-23 13:08 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-02-23 14:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-02-23 18:08 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-02-23 18:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-02-23 19:19 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-02-23 20:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-29 23:28 ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2018-01-30 13:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-31 3:42 ` Noam Postavsky
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