GNU bug report logs - #35596
view-lossage should leave less blank lines at bottom

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>

Date: Mon, 6 May 2019 00:25:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 35596 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Cc: 35596 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#35596: view-lossage should leave less blank lines at bottom
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?
This bug report was last modified 6 years and 70 days ago.

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