Re: The unwarranted scrolling assumption

[Lennart Borgman]

On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 19:22:43 +0200
>> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> >> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
>> >> Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 16:20:58 +0200
>> >> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
>> >>
>> >> > Please try this patch after reverting yours, and see if the problem
>> >> > you were trying to solve is gone.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> I am sure it does not.
>> >
>> > Could you please humor me by trying?
>>
>>
>> I think misread this as if you tried to solve the original problem
>> with this patch. Did you try to solve the original problem or another
>> problem?
>
> 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.

Could you please try my patch instead?