bug#11697: 24.1.50; ERC scroll-to-bottom functionality 'broken' in emacs 24.1.x

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On Friday, June 15, 2012 2:49:43 AM UTC-4, Antoine Levitt wrote:
> 15/06/12 04:00, Stefan Monnier
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> >> to emacs and has nothing to do with ERC in particular. For instance, I
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> >> also want my shell buffers not to scroll past the end of
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> >> buffers. Actually I think (but am not sure ; it would require testing)
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> >> I'd want all buffers to behave that way, and never, ever display
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> >> anything past the end of the buffer.
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> > How 'bout setting scroll-conservatively to 1000?
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> >         Stefan
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> Even with scroll-conservatively, there are situations where the
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> centering displays stuff after the buffer end, by playing around with
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> C-v / M-v. Another way is to find a file, M->, then C-x 2 and C-x
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> 1. There's a lot of other ways. This is in contrast with most
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> editors/browsers, which don't allow you to scroll past the end of the
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> buffer, ever. I'm not 100% sure whether I want that behavior for emacs
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> generally. However, I do want it for ERC / shells.

Was this ever resolved? I personally still experience it with a freshly compiled version.

GNU Emacs 24.2.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.10) of 2013-02-07 on linux-e2bl
ERC Version 5.3 (GNU Emacs 24.2.1)