bug#17746: [O] bug#17746: 24.4.50; "byte-code: `recenter'ing a window that does not display current-buffer." when composing a message

[Nicolas Richard]

Daimrod <daimrod@gmail.com> writes:
>> PS: The change about throwing an error when recentering a window
>> that does not display the current buffer breaks ~37 tests in Org
>> master branch, even with this fix.  I need to digg this further.
>
> Err, what's the rational behind this change?

It is meant to catch cases where recenter acts on the wrong window.
Think of the cases where (recenter) is called from within a timer or a
process filter function.

See the discussion entitled
> comint-preoutput-filter-functions and flickering redisplay in TTY
on emacs devel.

-- 
Nico.