bug#51210: Customizable other-window-for-scrolling

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
> Cc: rudalics@gmx.at,  51210@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2022 10:44:36 +0200
> 
> > If you must change it, please introduce a user option, by default
> > off.
> 
> An option could be added indeed, but wasn't 'recenter' intended
> only to refresh the screen, not to recenter?

No, it's the other way around: the command was meant to recenter and
_also_ to refresh the screen.

> 'beginning-of-buffer-other-window' has such line at the end:
> 
>   (recenter '(t))
> 
> Clearly it makes no sense to recenter at the beginning of the buffer.
> So the value '(t)' was intended only to refresh the screen?
> Then the same line in 'end-of-buffer-other-window'
> should only refresh the screen, not recenter.

I'm not sure I understand how all of this is relevant.  Please
elaborate.