Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions

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On 9 Nov 2012, Eli Zaretskii spake thusly:
> Yes, that is true.  But the point I wanted to make is that nothing in
> Emacs really assumes that point must be on the displayed portion of
> the buffer.  Rather, the display engine deliberately scrolls text to
> make sure point is visible.  So I don't think Emacs will go down in
> flames if some feature inhibits this automatic scrolling.  The
> auto-hscroll example was a demonstration of how Emacs command still
> work in a sensible way when point is not visible.

... which is a good sign that a small core change might make it possible
to implement this feature on its own in a few lines, without requiring
all the scroll-in-place machinery. Something else for me to look at :)

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