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29.3; Buffer showing manpage jumps back to beginning

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Message #53 received at 74924 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>, Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>,
 Ture Pålsson <ture <at> turepalsson.se>, 74924 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#74924: 29.3; Buffer showing manpage jumps back to beginning
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 01:59:01 -0800

Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net> writes:

>>> 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.
>
> Ok, now I pushed the immediate fix for this bug report that checks
> for 'Man-columns'.  Then later will do this two step procedure
> for a more general problem in window-x.el.

Were you able to make any progress with this?

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