bug#736: marked as done (C-l interacts badly with scroll-conservatively)

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has caused the Emacs bug report #736,
regarding C-l interacts badly with scroll-conservatively
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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: C-l interacts badly with scroll-conservatively
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:30:07 -0400
Message-ID: <873al3u0ao.fsf@stupidchicken.com>

emacs -q
M-: (setq scroll-conservatively 100) RET
C-h n
C-v
C-l
C-l
C-l

The repeated C-l's don't move to the top or bottom of the window, unlike
the usual behavior (new to Emacs 23) of recenter-top-bottom.




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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: 736-done@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: Re: bug#736: C-l interacts badly with scroll-conservatively
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:47:51 -0400
Message-ID: <87d4k77zmg.fsf@stupidchicken.com>

Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> writes:

> But why does recenter-top-bottom use scroll-conservatively?  AFAICT,
> people often use a large nonzero number for scroll-conservatively so
> that when point is at the bottom of the window, C-n scrolls down by one
> and keeps the cursor at the bottom; and similarly, if point is at the
> top of the window, C-p keeps the cursor at the top.  It doesn't make
> sense to make scroll-conservatively affect C-l.
>
> I think we should use scroll-margin for this purpose, rather than
> scroll-conservatively.

I've changed C-l to use scroll-margin instead of scroll-conservatively.