bug#23098: 25.0.92; (recenter -1) can leave point in the middle of the window

["Jorgen Schäfer" <jorgen.schaefer@gmail.com>]

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> If you set scroll-conservatively to a value larger than 100, don't you
> get point as low as possible?

No.

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 9:22 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: Jorgen Schäfer <jorgen.schaefer@gmail.com>
> > Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 19:40:50 +0000
> > Cc: 23098@debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > The use case here are buffers like comint or IRC chat buffers. It's nice
> to keep the last line of the buffer flush
> > with the last line of the window, to show the maximum amount of data.
> (recenter -1) at the end of a buffer is
> > supposed to do just that. In this case, it does not, but instead leaves
> point in the *middle* of the window.
>
> Yes, because the scrolling fails, and Emacs falls back on recentering.
>
> > If it is not possible to display that line halfway (which sounds like a
> missing feature to begin with), I would
> > expect Emacs to least try to leave point as low in the window as
> possible, instead of in the middle of the
> > window. C-l likewise won't move point any further down, for example.
>
> If you set scroll-conservatively to a value larger than 100, don't you
> get point as low as possible?
>

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