From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: (pos-visible-in-window-p t nil t) returns wrong position/is suboptimally documented.
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 12:32:39 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83lhbob6bs.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150930085611.GA6672@acm.fritz.box>
> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 08:56:11 +0000
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
>
> "If POSITION is `t', that means to check the first visible position
> of the last visible screen line in WINDOW."
>
> doesn't seem quite right. If the text in the window is scrolled such
> that EOB is in the middle of the window, POSITION t gives the
> coordinates of the last line containing text, not the last visible
> screen line.
You mean, it isn't clear that "screen line" means line with text? I
could add "with text" if that's the issue (I thought it was obvious).
> How about something like:
>
> "If POSITION is `t', that means to check the first visible position
> of the last visible screen line in WINDOW which is at or above the
> end of the window's buffer."
Too complex, IMO. It took me 4 readings to understand what you mean,
and that's _after_ I've read the description of the situation you were
taking about.
> However 2: I think there's a bug in the functionality, too. If there is
> o - a text buffer
> o - with no terminating LF on its last line, and
> o - that last line is above the window's last line
> then (pos-visible-in-window t nil t) returns the coordinates of the last
> lines's EOL. This is the case in both a Linux virtual terminal and an X
> windows session.
It's not a bug. If you think it's important to mention this marginal
use case, I can add that, too.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-30 9:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-27 10:40 (pos-visible-in-window-p t nil t) returns wrong position/is suboptimally documented Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-27 11:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-30 7:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-30 8:56 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-30 9:32 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-09-30 10:22 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-30 13:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-30 14:05 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-01 7:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
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