Re: Allowing point to be outside the window?

[Po Lu]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> >> And I question the validity of the combination scroll-move-point = nil
>> >> with keep-point-visible = t.  The problem with your implementation is
>> >> that scroll-move-point = nil disables scrolling in redisplay_window,
>> >> but scrolling there is used not necessarily as result of scrolling
>> >> commands, but also when redisplay_window decides that the optimal
>> >> method of updating a window is to scroll its previous contents.  Thus,
>> >> disabling scrolling on that level will cause confusing results,
>> >> because users will expect that to affect only scrolling commands: they
>> >> are unaware that redisplay sometimes scrolls the window for other
>> >> reasons.

> I didn't say redisplay calls the scrolling commands: you did.
>
> The truth is that redisplay doesn't call any scrolling commands.

`scroll-move-point' doesn't affect redisplay; it only affects the
scrolling commands in window.c.

I thought what you wrote was a typo, and that you meant to say "disables
scrolling in window.c" or something else similar.

Thanks.