Re: Allowing point to be outside the window?

[Po Lu]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> I don't think you can do that indiscriminately, because some of the
> places that set the window's force_start flag are unrelated to this
> feature.  One example is set_window_buffer and its callers.  Another
> example is the code in redisplay_window that ends with "goto
> force_start".  And there are probably more.
>
> So if you want to do that, you'll need to carefully audit all those
> places, and make sure you avoid moving point only when force_start was
> set by scrolling commands or in some similar situations.  Otherwise,
> users will complain that point goes out of view when they didn't
> expect it to.  For example, "C-x 2" goes through that code, and I'm
> quite sure we don't want point to be left outside of the window in
> that case.

Would it make sense to introduce a new flag that split-window-below and
other such commands set that makes force_start move point regardless of
the value of `keep-point-visible'?