bug#14520: 24.3; minibuffer resizes when message contains bold or italic text

[Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> writes:

> 1. Let ~/.emacs consist of the following line:
> (add-hook 'emacs-lisp-mode-hook 'turn-on-eldoc-mode)
>
> 2. Start Emacs with the above init-file.
>
> 3. Visit an Emacs lisp file that's long enough to scroll a number of
> screens up and down, e.g. lisp/abbrev.el from the Emacs source
> directory.
>
> 4. Type `M->' (end-of-buffer).
>
> 5. Type 'M-v' (scroll-down-command)
>
> => This puts point at line 902 (at least here, with window-height 33),
> which is at the bottom of the window as it should be -- but only for a
> fraction of a second, and then point is recentered so that line 902 is
> now in the middle of the window.

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)

I'm unable to reproduce this problem in Emacs 29 -- are you still seeing
this issue in recent Emacs versions?

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