Re: Allowing point to be outside the window?

[Po Lu]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> `scroll-move-point' doesn't affect redisplay; it only affects the
>> scrolling commands in window.c.
>
> It does affect redisplay: by not setting the force_start flag of the
> window.

What about modifying the code under force_start to not move point if
`keep-point-visible' is nil?  Since the point isn't required to be
visible anymore, there is no need to move the cursor there, I think.

> No, the problematic word was "scrolling": I meant the large block in
> redisplay_window conditioned by w->force_start being non-zero.  That
> includes the code under try_to_scroll.

Thanks for explaining that.