bug#36494: 27.0.50; [Proposition] New option to scroll up regardless of eob

[Marco Wahl]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Marco Wahl <marcowahlsoft@gmail.com>
>> Cc: Marco Wahl <marcowahlsoft@gmail.com>,  36494@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2019 23:07:15 +0200
>> 
>> Ok, sorry for the patch missing.  Here is the patch.
>
> Thanks.
>
> This seems to work well, but when there's only the single last line
> visible in the window, and the cursor is at EOB, S-DOWN scrolls back,
> i.e. after pressing it Emacs now shows 2 last lines.  I don't think
> this is intended, is it?

No.

Thanks for your review and your finding.

The scroll back behavior was due to a counting issue.  With the new
patch the counting has gone away entirely.

> Also, this is a user-visible change, so it needs to be called out in
> NEWS.
>
> Could you please resubmit with these minor nits fixed?

Okay.  Find a respective proposition in the attachment section, please.


Best regards,  Marco

0001-New-function-for-scroll-lock-to-almost-always-scroll.patch
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