From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Berman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: set-window-start in Elisp manual Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:21:48 +0100 Message-ID: <87lk6oo21v.fsf@escher.local.home> References: <877ii9z8la.fsf@escher.local.home> <478F5416.6080009@gmx.at> <87prw0o4al.fsf@escher.local.home> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1200586948 21933 80.91.229.12 (17 Jan 2008 16:22:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:22:28 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 17 17:22:47 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JFXVo-0002No-CF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:22:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JFXVP-0000I3-Ih for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:22:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JFXVL-0000HT-Ed for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:22:11 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JFXVJ-0000HB-PP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:22:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JFXVJ-0000H8-LO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:22:09 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JFXVI-0006fN-Ht for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:22:09 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JFXVB-0003Mj-22 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:22:01 +0000 Original-Received: from i5387dee9.versanet.de ([83.135.222.233]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:22:00 +0000 Original-Received: from Stephen.Berman by i5387dee9.versanet.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:22:00 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: i5387dee9.versanet.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:87025 Archived-At: On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:40:12 +0100 bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård) wrote: > Stephen Berman writes: > >> On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:29:01 +0100 bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård) wrote: >> >>> martin rudalics writes: >>> >>>> FWIW this used to work in Emacs 20 but was already broken in Emacs 21. >>>> We would have to find out why and where `window-start' gets reset to 1. >>> >>> [xdisp.c:13049] >>> >>> /* If window starts on a continuation line, maybe adjust the >>> window start in case the window's width changed. */ >>> if (XMARKER (w->start)->buffer == current_buffer) >>> compute_window_start_on_continuation_line (w); >> >> How does this piece of code relate to the set-window-start issue, since >> the latter doesn't seem to involve a continuation line? Or did you >> accidentally paste in the wrong bit > > The paste is correct, the line number is wrong. Sorry. Ok, thanks for the correction. My question wasn't rhetorical, I don't see the relation between the set-window-start issue and continuation lines. Could you clarify, or at least point to where in the code this relation is established? Thanks. Steve Berman