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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Cc: 13791@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13791: 24.3.50; scroll-margin docstring says "recenter"
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 12:18:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83hal3l4ez.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y5efj2wr.fsf@yandex.ru>

> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 04:21:24 +0400
> 
> The docstring says: "Recenter the window whenever point gets within this
> many lines of the top or bottom of the window."
> 
> That's not entirely accurate. Depending on the value of
> `scroll-conservatively', the window may get scrolled instead.

That's true.  However, how to describe this in a manner that will not
confuse the reader is less clear.  "Recenter or scroll" is not very
useful, IMO, as it doesn't say which will happen.  Suggestions are
welcome.





  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-23 10:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-23  0:21 bug#13791: 24.3.50; scroll-margin docstring says "recenter" Dmitry Gutov
2013-02-23 10:18 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-02-23 13:08   ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-02-23 14:50     ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-02-23 18:08       ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-02-23 18:47         ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-02-23 19:19           ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-02-23 20:19             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-29 23:28   ` Noam Postavsky
2018-01-30 13:56     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-31  3:42       ` Noam Postavsky

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