From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Jorgen Schäfer" <jorgen.schaefer@gmail.com>
Cc: 23098@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23098: 25.0.92; (recenter -1) can leave point in the middle of the window
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 22:22:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83a8lp2bd4.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALqDrSe7GUay_h0q9aKzfrwgP6OVU_QzS_tVhCHn5DV8a+CoUw@mail.gmail.com> (message from Jorgen Schäfer on Wed, 23 Mar 2016 19:40:50 +0000)
> From: Jorgen Schäfer <jorgen.schaefer@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 19:40:50 +0000
> Cc: 23098@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> The use case here are buffers like comint or IRC chat buffers. It's nice to keep the last line of the buffer flush
> with the last line of the window, to show the maximum amount of data. (recenter -1) at the end of a buffer is
> supposed to do just that. In this case, it does not, but instead leaves point in the *middle* of the window.
Yes, because the scrolling fails, and Emacs falls back on recentering.
> If it is not possible to display that line halfway (which sounds like a missing feature to begin with), I would
> expect Emacs to least try to leave point as low in the window as possible, instead of in the middle of the
> window. C-l likewise won't move point any further down, for example.
If you set scroll-conservatively to a value larger than 100, don't you
get point as low as possible?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-23 20:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-23 18:40 bug#23098: 25.0.92; (recenter -1) can leave point in the middle of the window Jorgen Schaefer
2016-03-23 19:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-23 19:40 ` Jorgen Schäfer
2016-03-23 20:22 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-03-24 8:12 ` Jorgen Schäfer
2016-03-24 15:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-24 16:27 ` Jorgen Schäfer
2016-03-24 16:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-26 23:27 ` John Wiegley
2016-03-27 8:35 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-03-27 15:07 ` Drew Adams
2016-03-28 13:10 ` Jorgen Schäfer
2016-03-28 17:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-28 17:41 ` Jorgen Schäfer
2016-03-28 17:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
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