From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Allowing point to be outside the window?
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2021 15:42:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ilw0zg38.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lf0xjgxu.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Tue, 07 Dec 2021 10:18:37 +0800)
> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2021 10:18:37 +0800
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > Again, what do you mean by "start is forced"? Emacs sometimes forces
> > the window-start upon itself, you can clearly see that in the code.
>
> Whenever w->force_start is true.
This is sometimes set for Emacs itself, regardless of the user
commands. So all such uses should be audited.
> > And if point is outside of the window, recentering makes no sense
> > anyway, because there's nothing to recenter about, there's no point of
> > reference for it.
>
> The window start is moved to a suitable location which will cause point
> to be displayed in the center of the screen.
>
> If that isn't possible, the closest location to that is set as window
> start.
Yes. I'm saying that if point is allowed to be outside of the window
during some redisplay cycle, we'd need a different criteria for when
and how to change w->start.
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