From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Default value of recenter-redisplay
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2018 18:18:38 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <831seyt50x.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h8nuw1be.fsf@gmail.com> (message from John Shahid on Sun, 29 Apr 2018 14:10:29 +0000)
> From: John Shahid <jvshahid@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2018 14:10:29 +0000
>
> I'm wondering why the default value of the variable is set to `tty' ?
Because one important interactive use of 'recenter' is to redraw the
screen to eliminate display corruptions due to all kinds of unrelated
messages being dumped on the console. When this variable and the
related feature was introduced, RMS explicitly asked not to change the
then default behavior on TTY's, see
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-06/msg00416.html
> Also, is it safe to set the variable to `nil' ?
If you don't care about fixing corrupted display on TTYs (or never
experienced that), you can safely change it to nil.
> If it is safe, can we change the default value to `nil' in order to
> have a better terminal experience ?
Why does it have to change by default? I generally find arguments
about default values to be waste of time and energy, since anyone who
doesn't like the default can change it for them.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-29 15:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-29 14:10 Default value of recenter-redisplay John Shahid
2018-04-29 14:47 ` Amos Bird
2018-04-29 15:02 ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2018-04-29 15:18 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-04-29 17:07 ` Bob Proulx
2018-04-29 17:29 ` tomas
2018-04-29 19:50 ` Drew Adams
2018-04-29 17:36 ` Drew Adams
2018-04-29 17:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-29 22:11 ` John Shahid
2018-04-30 12:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-01 1:18 ` unknown
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