Subject: Re: bug#21967: C-s insists on putting us back at the center of the screen

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 21:34:24 +0200

Dan Jacobson <[email-masked]> writes:

> Several taps of C-s get more and more of what we were searching for. All
> well and good.
>
> Two taps of C-l put the cursor at the top of the screen.
>
> Several taps of C-s get more and more of what we were searching for. All
> well and bad... because what if we want to stay at the top of the screen
> while doing that... C-s insists on putting us back in the center of the
> screen! (Which is usually good. However perhaps after two taps of C-l,
> it should stay at the top during the next search or something.)

I think that sounds like surprising and unintuitive behaviour for such a
central command, so I'm closing this bug report.

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