Re: gnus-auto-center-summary off-center

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch> writes:

> What I don't understand is: what is wrong with calling 'recenter' or
> 'center-to-window-line'?

The thing that's, er, in dispute here is not how to actually update
the window, but how to compute which line we want to center on.

We want to have two lines above point, if we are not at the end of the 
buffer, and then we want to just let point go down to the line it
would naturally be on.  If you get my drift.

The problem is with half-cut-off lines, and the "go down to the line"
part.  In some cases, the current algorithm seems to miscompute
something somewhere (or XEmacs is not forthright in its information;
it's a somewhat obscure problem), and when typing `M-> SPC' (or the
like), point will jump up to the middle of the buffer, leaving the
user very confused.

Or to put it more succinctly -- when skipping to the final line, and
the final line is displayed in a half-cut-off fashion, something will
miscompute.  Shenghou's fix makes this problem go away, but at the
price of showing a half-blank line, always, at the bottom of the
summary buffer.

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