Subject: bug#35596: view-lossage should leave less blank lines at bottom

From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 07 May 2019 23:27:50 +0300

>    C-h l runs the command view-lossage (found in global-map), which is an
>    interactive compiled Lisp function in ‘help.el’.
>
>    It is bound to C-h l, <f1> l, <help> l.
>
> Well it doesn't seem so smart. Every time I use it the bottom half of
> its window is wasted. Wouldn't it be smarter to just leave one or zero
> blank lines at bottom?

The last line of 'view-lossage' has this comment:

      ;; jidanni wants to see the last keystrokes immediately.
      (set-marker help-window-point-marker (point)))))

Why it fails to do what you want?