Re: Scrolling commands and skipping redisplay, was: Re: emacs rendering comparisson between emacs23 and emacs26.3

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden>,  address@hidden,  address@hidden,
>   address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 13:39:18 -0400
> 
> >> > So "C-2 C-n" would behave differently from "C-n C-n", or from running
> >> > a macro that records 2 C-n in a row?  Is that a good thing?
> >> Is scroll-conservatively is 1, 'C-2 C-n' should behave differently at 
> >> the bottom of the window from 'C-n C-n'.
> > Why?
> 
> Because that's how `scroll-conservatively` was defined.

No.  Its definition is spelled out in the doc string.

> > they both move point by 2 lines.
> 
> Overall, yes.  But one of the commands moves by 2 lines where the other
> (identical) two only move by one line.

Which brings me back to the point where I explained this, several
messages up-thread.  So I guess I can now say I'm out of this
discussion, since I already said everything I could.  Let's agree to
disagree.