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29.3; Buffer showing manpage jumps back to beginning

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>, Ture Pålsson <ture <at> turepalsson.se>, Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>, 74924 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#74924: 29.3; Buffer showing manpage jumps back to beginning
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2025 09:53:17 +0100

> After resizing the frame, 'man' have to regenerate the buffer's contents
> with new width.

I see.

> Ok, need to try using 'window-point-context-use-default-function'
> and modify it to ignore whitespace changes in context strings.

I would make it a two step procedure.

- In a first step try to find an exact fix.

- In the second step ignore whitespace changes.

The second step is slightly more dangerous because it might get us false
positives.

> But first need to move 'window-point-context-use-default-function'
> to the new file lisp/window-x.el after you will push
> Pranshu's patch that creates the new file lisp/window-x.el ;-)

I'm still waiting for Eli's approval.

martin

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