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Re: "spurious scrolling bug"
From: |
Chong Yidong |
Subject: |
Re: "spurious scrolling bug" |
Date: |
Thu, 12 Apr 2007 22:27:57 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.97 (gnu/linux) |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> Does anyone know what the FOR-RELEASE item "spurious scrolling bug"
> actually refers to?
>
> This bug causes a spurious scroll that centers point in the window.
> Sometimes it seems to happen while Emacs is idle, which leads
> me to suspect that an idle timer is doing it, or else that the
> code in keyboard.c that does things like auto-save and GC when Emacs
> is idle.
>
> I have tried to find ways to reproduce it, but no success yet.
I haven't seen anything like this. Any clues?
>From inspecting timer-list and timer-idle-list, I see only that the
only active timer is the idle timer jit-lock-context-fontify, which
doesn't move point. Do you have stealth fontification on, or any
relevant customizations that might cause this?