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Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 20:54:47 -0400
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    > I think extending the `scroll-preserve-screen-position' is a good
    > thing.  I noticed that now `scroll-preserve-screen-position' even
    > stopped to do what is described in its docstring.  In a year old
    > CVS version, when `scroll-preserve-screen-position' is t, `M-1 M-v'
    > preserved the screen position, but in the current CVS it doesn't do
    > that.  This looks like a bug.

    AFAICS this behavior is intentional:

I now remember that that's what the variable was originally supposed
to do.  Someone reported it had been changed, so I changed it back.