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24.4.50; View-search-... skips all matches between (point) and edge of window

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Dima Kogan <dima <at> secretsauce.net>
Cc: 18131 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18131: 24.4.50; View-search-... skips all matches between (point) and edge of window
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 00:50:07 +0200

Dima Kogan <dima <at> secretsauce.net> writes:

>>> -	(move-to-window-line (if (< times 0) 0 -1)))
>>
>> If this was a design choice, then we should perhaps ask the person who
>> designed it what it's all about...  which isn't easy in this instance,
>> since this is very old code.
>>
>> Does anybody have an opinion here?
>
> Can we revisit this? I think view-mode behaving like 'less' does would
> be an improvement.

After playing with it a bit, I think you're right -- the current
behaviour seems really unobvious.  I've applied your patch to the trunk.

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