From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: query-replace and the bottom of the screen
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2017 17:58:07 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <837exd2nwg.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mv695p9a.fsf@mat.ucm.es> (message from Uwe Brauer on Tue, 05 Sep 2017 14:00:33 +0200)
> From: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
> Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2017 14:00:33 +0200
>
> When I start emacs -q and run
> query-replace, say like this
>
>
> (query-replace "this" "this" nil nil nil nil nil)
> then everything works like expected:
>
> Text with expression «this» which is in the middle of my screen is
> presented in the middle of the screen:
>
> And I am asked to replace it.
>
> However when I start emacs with my init file, open a file which covers
> various screen pages
> and do
> (query-replace "this" "this" nil nil nil nil nil)
>
> The cursor always jumps to the bottom of the screen and asks me to
> replace. This makes it difficult to see the context of the change.
> This misbehavior must be caused by some of my setting. But what could it
> be.
Do you perhaps have scroll-conservatively set to a value larger than
100? If so, Emacs is behaving like you requested.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-05 14:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-05 12:00 query-replace and the bottom of the screen Uwe Brauer
2017-09-05 14:58 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-09-05 15:51 ` Uwe Brauer
2017-09-05 16:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
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