From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Jorgen Schaefer <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 21:18:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d1ql2ebx.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r3f19gx0.fsf@loki.jorgenschaefer.de> (message from Jorgen Schaefer on Wed, 23 Mar 2016 19:40:27 +0100)
> From: Jorgen Schaefer <jorgen.schaefer@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 19:40:27 +0100
>
> Evaluating the following code in "emacs -Q" leaves point in the middle
> of the window, instead of at the end of the window as expected. Certain
> modes (IRC) want to keep the buffer flushed at the end of the window,
> this problem interferes with that behavior and causes very weird jumpy
> scrolling.
>
>
> (require 'cl)
> (let* ((b (get-buffer-create "*Bug Repro*"))
> (w (selected-window))
> (l (window-height w))
> o)
> (set-window-buffer w b)
> (select-window w)
> (set-buffer b)
> (erase-buffer)
> (cl-dotimes (i (* l 2))
> (insert "foo\n"))
> (goto-char (point-min))
> (forward-line (+ l 2))
> (setq o (make-overlay (point) (point)))
> (overlay-put o 'after-string "\n")
> (goto-char (point-max))
> (recenter -1))
>
>
> That is, if there is a multi-line overlay that would be shown only
> halfway.
I'm not sure I understand: are you trying to display a window whose
start point is in the middle of an overlay string? That's not
possible, AFAIK. The window-start point must be a buffer position.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-23 19:18 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 [this message]
2016-03-23 19:40 ` Jorgen Schäfer
2016-03-23 20:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
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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