Subject: Re: bug#36250: [PATCH] Allow Emacs to be resized arbitrarily

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 18:49:18 +0300

> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
> From: martin rudalics <[email-masked]>
> Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 10:17:55 +0200
> 
>  >> Doesn't that imply that one cannot use Follow Mode for *info* buffers?
>  >
>  > Follow mode indeed has known problems in these situations.
> 
> Ever since, I suppose.  Why is it difficult to fix them?

Lack of resources, mainly.  Follow mode tries to force the display
engine do something, and that is tricky, as we know.  Maybe it uses
the wrong hooks, or maybe we need a new hook just for this mode.