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28.0.50; Overlay at end of minibuf hides minibuf's real content

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 43519 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#43519: 28.0.50; Overlay at end of minibuf hides minibuf's real content
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2020 22:47:40 +0300

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: 43519 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2020 15:17:11 -0400
> 
> >> I've been trying out the patch below and haven't bumped into any
> >> surprising behavior yet, but admittedly, I probably lack creativity.
> > IOW, you leave it entirely to the generic window-display code to
> > select window-start based just on the value of point?
> 
> Yes.  It seems to work very well.
> Even the corner case regression above doesn't seem very serious and can
> be addressed using the scroll_conservatively code.

I'd rather we didn't change the behavior all over because of this one
use case.

But if no one is interested in my proposal, you can do whatever you
wish.

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