Possible bug

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

Would someone like to take a look at this
and see if there is a bug?

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From: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 02:32:38 +0800
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Subject: Re: see compilation results in a single window
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> But wait. What if I want to be left looking at the top of the
> compilation buffer, instead of following its tail?

< That should be the default behavior; did you try in "emacs -Q"?

< The variable compilation-scroll-output controls whether Emacs tracks
< the tail of the messages or not.

$ emacs -Q #using snapshot of late Sep 2006, sorry
(set-variable (quote compilation-window-height) 111 nil)
(compile "seq 222" nil)
And it still tracks the bottom, even though
compilation-scroll-output is nil, as default.