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28.0.50; Minibuffer display "jumps" upon minor edit

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Message #41 received at 44070 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 44070 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#44070: 28.0.50; Minibuffer display "jumps" upon minor edit
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2020 13:59:35 -0500

>> Also, I'm not sure that's what we want to do: as I argued in my previous
>> message, this change is mostly meant to better fit the behavior of
>> resize_mini_window, and that behavior applies to all mini-windows,
>> regardless if they're used for a minibuffer or something else.
> My line of thinking was that, while in minibuffers we usually want to
> see the end of the text, that is not necessarily true in echo-area
> messages.

Yet, that's what `resize_mini_window` does for all mini-windows
regardless of it's an echo-area or not.

Also, my patch shouldn't affect whether we "see the end of the text", so
maybe I just don't understand what you're referring to.

>> I suggest we keep the code as is for now, and we'll consider what to do
>> *if* someone encounters a regression (which, for all we know, could
>> also affect the minibuffer case).
> Then let's leave a FIXME comment about this in those two places where
> you use MINI_WINDOW_P, okay?

I thought the test of `scroll_minibuffer_conservative` played this role.


        Stefan

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