Re: Default value of recenter-redisplay

[Amos Bird <amosbird@gmail.com>]

Hi, I just encountered this today. Removing the (recenter) call 
makes the issue
go away. Thanks!

John Shahid <jvshahid@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> Today I decided to tackle a flicker issue that happens when the 
> flycheck
> error list is displayed for the current buffer(i.e. by calling
> `flycheck-list-errors' interactively). It turns out the 
> flickering is
> caused by a call to recenter[1] that happens inside a flycheck
> post-command-hook[2]. Setting `recenter-redisplay' to nil fixes 
> the
> issue.
>
>
> I'm wondering why the default value of the variable is set to 
> `tty' ?
> Also, is it safe to set the variable to `nil' ? If it is safe, 
> can we
> change the default value to `nil' in order to have a better 
> terminal
> experience ?
>
> p.s. I'm using emacs version 27.0.50, although I don't think 
> that will
> make a difference given that the value of the variable hasn't 
> changed in
> a while.
>
> thanks,
>
> -js
>
> [1]: 
> https://github.com/flycheck/flycheck/blob/master/flycheck.el#L4208
> [2]: 
> https://github.com/flycheck/flycheck/blob/master/flycheck.el#L4360


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Amos Bird
amosbird@gmail.com