bug#43572: Feature request: make it possible to choose whether the first lines of the minibuffer should be displayed instead of the last ones

[Stefan Monnier]

> 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