Re: 21.1: mh-e folder mode displayed incorrectly

[Gerd Moellmann]

Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca> writes:

> > Maybe I'm misunderstanding what mh-recenter should do.  It's comment
> > says
> > 
> >   ;; Like recenter but with two improvements: nil arg means recenter,
> >   ;; and only does anything if the current buffer is in the selected
> >   ;; window.  (Commands like save-some-buffers can make this false.)
> > 
> > and for that, `(t)' seems not the right thing.
> 
> I guess `(t) makes it act like C-u ?
> See docs for recenter:
> 
>  Just C-u as prefix means put point in the center of the window
>  and redisplay normally--don't erase and redraw the frame.

That's what the code does, but not what the function comment says,
and not what Kevin apparently expects, so the question is still
open what it should do.

> For my own education, what's the proper elisp conversion of 
>  C-u M-x somecommand
> ?

You mean what you pass to an ELisp function as argument just C-u?
C-h v prefix-arg RET (`(list 4)' für just C-u).