From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: ghe@sdf.org, 43572@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#43572: Feature request: make it possible to choose whether the first lines of the minibuffer should be displayed instead of the last ones
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2020 12:44:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvd02bp1o1.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83y2kztf9v.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 24 Sep 2020 17:34:20 +0300")
> where [...] denotes the portion of text indicated as "important
> chunk", and | denotes the position of point. Suppose further than the
> available screen estate is insufficient to display all of the
> "important chunk" -- which part would you want to see on display: the
> part before point? after point? centered at point? something else?
I think either of those would be fine, so it should be decided by the
usual scrolling constraints (i.e. don't scroll if not needed, obey
scroll-conservatively, ...).
IOW, by default if scrolling was needed anyway and scroll-conservatively
is not set, I'd expect "centered at point".
Stefan
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2020-09-22 20:57 bug#43572: Feature request: make it possible to choose whether the first lines of the minibuffer should be displayed instead of the last ones Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-09-23 15:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-23 19:15 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-09-23 19:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-23 20:15 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-09-24 14:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-24 14:41 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-09-24 15:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-24 16:09 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-09-24 16:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-24 16:40 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-09-24 17:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-24 21:51 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-09-25 6:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-25 8:34 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-09-25 9:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-25 10:14 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-09-25 11:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-25 11:34 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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2020-09-23 18:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-23 18:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-23 23:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-24 14:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-24 16:44 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2020-09-24 16:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-27 21:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-28 6:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-28 13:30 ` Stefan Monnier
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2020-09-28 16:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-02 15:40 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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2020-10-02 16:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-02 16:25 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-10-02 19:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-02 21:49 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-04-29 14:02 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-23 19:46 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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2020-09-24 14:27 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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2020-09-28 6:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-28 13:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-28 13:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-28 16:56 ` Stefan Monnier
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