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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 13791@debbugs.gnu.org, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Subject: bug#13791: 24.3.50; scroll-margin docstring says "recenter"
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 18:28:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87shaoi6sn.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83hal3l4ez.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 23 Feb 2013 12:18:12 +0200")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> 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.

Can't we just add a sentence?  "Depending the value of
`scroll-conservatively', the window may be scrolled instead of
recentered."  The details in `scroll-conservatively's docstring should
give sufficient accuracy.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-01-29 23:28 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
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 [this message]
2018-01-30 13:56     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-31  3:42       ` Noam Postavsky

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