Re: Tabulated list recenter issue

[Clément Pit-Claudel]

On 2017-04-12 03:15, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Cc: address@hidden
>> From: Clément Pit-Claudel <address@hidden>
>> Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 02:25:33 -0400
>>
>> On 2017-04-12 02:03, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>> This will affect all the features that use tabulated-list, including,
>>> for example, buffer-menu.  Since the use case where this behavior is
>>> somewhat problematic is quite special, I don't think changing the
>>> behavior globally would be a good idea. 
>>
>> Hi Eli,
>>
>> Are there any cases in which the current behavior is desirable?
> 
> All of them I'm familiar with, IMO.  Having the window-position move
> when you change sorting is an annoyance IME.
> 
> IOW, I personally like the current behavior a lot.  Of course, all of
> my use cases are with lists longer than a single window.

Wait, but in the very large majority of these cases the patch won't change 
anything, will it? The only case in which it changes things is when sorting 
puts your current entry towards the bottom of the list.