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29.3; Buffer showing manpage jumps back to beginning

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: rpluim <at> gmail.com, ture <at> turepalsson.se, 74924 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, stefankangas <at> gmail.com, juri <at> linkov.net
Subject: bug#74924: 29.3; Buffer showing manpage jumps back to beginning
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2025 11:04:03 +0200

> Cc: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>,
>  Ture Pålsson <ture <at> turepalsson.se>,
>  Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>, 74924 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2025 09:53:17 +0100
> From:  martin rudalics via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> 
>  > 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.

Sorry, I wasn't aware you were waiting for my approval.  Where's the
message asking for the approval, so I could re-read it?

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