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view-lossage should leave less blank lines at bottom

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35596: closed (view-lossage should leave less blank lines at
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Date: Wed, 08 May 2019 12:33:02 +0000

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From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: view-lossage should leave less blank lines at bottom
Date: Mon, 06 May 2019 08:24:15 +0800

   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?

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Cc: 35596-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, juri <at> linkov.net
Subject: Re: bug#35596: view-lossage should leave less blank lines at bottom
Date: Wed, 08 May 2019 15:31:57 +0300

> From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
> Cc: juri <at> linkov.net,  35596 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 08 May 2019 19:46:56 +0800
> 
> I think there shouldn't be any blank lines following the "\n[back]",
> unless we just started emacs and there isn't much to report.
> 
> I think this should be the default behavior and users shouldn't need to
> set some variable (that is not even mentioned on C-h k C-h l) to "some
> value over 100" to achieve it.

And I think there's nothing wrong with the default behavior as it is.
Emacs behaves like that with any window that pops up to show any
content.

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