From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#43572: Feature request: make it possible to choose whether the first lines of the minibuffer should be displayed instead of the last ones Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2020 12:44:56 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83a6xguy7w.fsf@gnu.org> <83y2kztf9v.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="10553"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: ghe@sdf.org, 43572@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 24 18:58:57 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kLUa9-0002Zi-44 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2020 18:58:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37410 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kLUa8-0000Zw-3p for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2020 12:58:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:39620) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kLUNe-00068n-37 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2020 12:46:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:58181) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kLUNd-0001wS-OI for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2020 12:46:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kLUNd-0001Qm-N7 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2020 12:46:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2020 16:46:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 43572 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 43572-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B43572.16009659075440 (code B ref 43572); Thu, 24 Sep 2020 16:46:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 43572) by debbugs.gnu.org; 24 Sep 2020 16:45:07 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41494 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kLUMk-0001Pg-RM for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2020 12:45:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.25.50]:41805) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kLUMi-0001Op-Ju for 43572@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2020 12:45:04 -0400 Original-Received: from pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 31E9A100251; Thu, 24 Sep 2020 12:44:59 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (unknown [172.31.2.1]) by pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 4C18E100096; Thu, 24 Sep 2020 12:44:57 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=iro.umontreal.ca; s=mail; t=1600965897; bh=kdxaotm2vSlL9P4Rq+s6wxRT7tdr6FvZpm7KsZkF+gE=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=AgaI9JCsMQ2JtXr6nVNySFJujJ4WQPM9vxG6PbLVxR1KM3rspLBuzhS4VW0q3ikNY c7WltCeQNS89sDEIcjJZqmwbrghlYt0XvbydzR8tacVO5CkfXSU2cYlywnKnHaivzI YYGVJU5U+74e9YE9AO8EB/Hp60up6xWgpn2Jlvh5pnQcpCOtQfgaaGQcicsPQz/UVD 2dy1jDvqrXf+LbUml2Ew9ct9xyFwjqXfd1detV92WPDCuqwnrUjEs+xmE13i5nAvKg C5OygPy6xMA7+cXEwfOHTk0CWO7uwtdequGywUy/u0EIf/oxA/yG36BQKW1ONDkk8c fBVROEnXBW2dQ== Original-Received: from alfajor (unknown [45.72.232.131]) by mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1A6641204E8; Thu, 24 Sep 2020 12:44:57 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <83y2kztf9v.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 24 Sep 2020 17:34:20 +0300") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:188886 Archived-At: > where [...] denotes the portion of text indicated as "important > chunk", and | denotes the position of point. Suppose further than the > available screen estate is insufficient to display all of the > "important chunk" -- which part would you want to see on display: the > part before point? after point? centered at point? something else? I think either of those would be fine, so it should be decided by the usual scrolling constraints (i.e. don't scroll if not needed, obey scroll-conservatively, ...). IOW, by default if scrolling was needed anyway and scroll-conservatively is not set, I'd expect "centered at point". Stefan