Re: Emacs scrolling past the end of buffer

[Deniz Dogan <deniz@dogan.se>]

Antoine Levitt skrev 2012-02-09 11:06:
> 09/02/12 00:32, Deniz Dogan
>> A good compromise, in my opinion, would be to basically _not_ "scroll
>> to bottom" on every single character insertion.  With the addition of
>> the post-display hook, when the user hits RET, the message will be
>> sent, ERC will display that message, the new hook will run, and it
>> will be recentered to the bottom again.  This method is something I've
>> personally used in rcirc for quite some time and I'm very happy with
>> it.
>
> But then it sometimes happen that you see past the end of the buffer
> when scrolling (the horror!). I'd rather have excessive CPU consumption.
>

Fair enough!  This makes me wonder, though, whether there is any other 
useful hook we can use in combination with my suggestion, to properly 
recenter whenever point goes outside of the currently viewed part of the 
buffer.