From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 15:12:03 +0100 Message-ID: <509E60B3.40305@gmx.at> References: <87a9uvv6ng.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87bof9s7cl.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> <874nl0ov8g.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> <20635.63115.874182.168553@winooski.ccs.neu.edu> <87liecnelf.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> <83390k0wgy.fsf@gnu.org> <83sj8jz0rs.fsf@gnu.org> <509E363A.4080105@gmx.at> <83mwypy93b.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1352556742 21091 80.91.229.3 (10 Nov 2012 14:12:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 14:12:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dan@haxney.org, rms@gnu.org, eli@barzilay.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, nix@esperi.org.uk, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, dmoncayo@gmail.com, stephen@xemacs.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 10 15:12:31 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TXBnR-0007PH-Ku for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Nov 2012 15:12:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41676 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TXBnI-00025d-7K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Nov 2012 09:12:20 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:41112) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TXBnD-00025V-G0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Nov 2012 09:12:18 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TXBnA-0007KB-Do for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Nov 2012 09:12:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.22]:46606) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TXBnA-0007Jw-2Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Nov 2012 09:12:12 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 10 Nov 2012 14:12:11 -0000 Original-Received: from 62-47-57-19.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [62.47.57.19]) [62.47.57.19] by mail.gmx.net (mp028) with SMTP; 10 Nov 2012 15:12:11 +0100 X-Authenticated: #14592706 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19WYa0IFuBWsbbXw8IMQXtodYnoMSzyGA/P4l6tdv w/LFIHwYgi97AN In-Reply-To: <83mwypy93b.fsf@gnu.org> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 213.165.64.22 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:154798 Archived-At: >> > There might well be some bugs that are triggered if point >> > is not inside the displayed window. >> >> The _selected_ window. When a window is not selected, its buffer's >> `point' not necessarily appears in it. > > Could easily be false, How can a phrase like that be false? > if redisplay decides to redisplay more than a > single window. E.g., when the window's dimensions are changed. In this case the old `window-point' should be preserved. Everything else would constitute a bug. Anyway, what I wanted to say is that we already know how to deal with the case when a buffer's `point' is not displayed in a window showing that buffer. martin