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Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions


From: martin rudalics
Subject: Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 15:12:03 +0100

>>  > There might well be some bugs that are triggered if point
>>  > is not inside the displayed window.
>>
>> The _selected_ window.  When a window is not selected, its buffer's
>> `point' not necessarily appears in it.
>
> Could easily be false,

How can a phrase like that be false?

> if redisplay decides to redisplay more than a
> single window.  E.g., when the window's dimensions are changed.

In this case the old `window-point' should be preserved.  Everything
else would constitute a bug.  Anyway, what I wanted to say is that we
already know how to deal with the case when a buffer's `point' is not
displayed in a window showing that buffer.

martin



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