Here's a simpler and clearer recipe that should show the problem on any tty or X display: emacs-28.2 -Q M-: C-u 9 9 C-q C-j x C-@ M-< C-v This creates a 100-line minibuffer with "x" on the last line. After the M-< and C-v, we should be one windowful down from the top, but instead we've scrolled nearly to the end and the "x" has shown up on the last line.