bug#27932: 26.0.50; Feature request: prevent scroll commands from changing the buffer location of point

[Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo@gmail.com>]

>> Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't think that the
>> meaning/interpretation of 'scroll-conservatively' should be changed at
>> all, because AFAIK, that variable controls the auto-scroll triggered
>> by a point movement, and such auto-scroll would be equally necessary
>> with the proposed feature enabled (and should work equally).
>
> ??? The proposed feature is that point could go off the view without
> requiring any scrolling.

The proposed feature is that any _scrolling_command_ (e.g. C-v, M-v,
mouse-wheel, ...) should perform its scrolling without altering the
location of point (wrt its buffer).  But any command which changes
either the location of point (wrt its buffer) (e.g. "C-u 200 C-n" or
the buffer text should check whether the point is currently visible,
and if it isn't visible, it should trigger an auto-scroll to make
point visible (exactly as happens now).

In short: point movement should trigger auto-scrolling (as now), but
scrolling should not move point.

-- 
Dani Moncayo