Re: A solution to display completion candidates after point in a minibuffer

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2020 20:10:46 -0400
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> >> IIRC the reason it won't scroll the second time around is because point
> >> should be visible (and redisplay would only scroll in order to move point
> >> within view).
> > I don't know, but I'm not sure about that.  If you (set-window-start nil 1)
> > unconditionally in window-scroll-functions, this setting will be obeyed by
> > redisplay, even if point is not visible anymore.
> 
> Oh, indeed, in that case it would move point instead.

No, it could also reject the start-point and try anew, see try_window.