Re: The unwarranted scrolling assumption

[Lennart Borgman]

On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 11:18 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 21:10:28 +0200
>> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> >> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
>> >> Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 19:58:39 +0200
>> >> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
>> >>
>> >> > The problem I tried to solve was the one you reported at the beginning
>> >> > of this thread: evaluate this:
>> >> >
>> >> >    (setq scroll-preserve-screen-position 'always
>> >> >          scroll-conservatively           most-positive-fixnum
>> >> >          scroll-step                     0)
>> >> >
>> >> > and then visit window.c and press and hold the <down> arrow key.  You
>> >> > said that sometimes you see display being recentered, i.e. you see the
>> >> > cursor near the middle of the window, instead of it being at the last
>> >> > screen line.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Then I am afraid the patch is plain wrong.
>> >
>> > Did you try it?
>>
>> Why do you ask?
>
> Because only by trying and reporting the results you can prove that
> the changes I installed do not fix the problem.

For me this is not about checking if the patch works but more about
convincing you that it does not.

Or, I would be very surprised if it did ;-)

Anyway the easiest way now seems that I take this trouble. I tried to
apply your patch as sent, but I could not get it to work. Maybe you
can just send me that function so I can replace that?

>> It does not at all address the original problem.
>
> I think it does, except that you interpret the ``original problem''
> incorrectly.

Yes, let us see.