Re: Redisplay resets vscroll when window start changes

[Stefan Monnier]

Eli Zaretskii [2021-11-17 05:31:00] wrote:
> My suggestion is to implement equivalents of C-n/C-p that do what you
> want, instead of asking for previous/next-line to be able to preserve
> the vscroll, because those commands aren't supposed to support the use
> case you want to support.

[ I feel somewhat responsible for this mess, since IIRC I was the one
  who first tried to write a line-move that preserves the pixel-column,
  by using the redisplay iterator code, without understand very much of
  what it does or how it works.  ]

I'm still not sure how/why line-move should affect vscroll.
AFAIK while line-move does use some of the redisplay code, in theory at
least its effect should only ever be to move point (i.e. when called
within a `save-excursion` it should end up having no effect at all).

Would there be a way to distinguish the case where line-move can return
a correct result without changing vscroll, from the case where it does
require changing vscroll in order to find its answer?


        Stefan