Re: [bug] window-end breakage

Sunday, 29 August 1999

        Andy Piper <andy(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes:

...
 At 10:23 PM 8/29/99 +0200, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
 >Try this: visit a largish file, and evaluate:
 >    (progn
 >      (goto-char (point-max))
 >      (window-start))
 >
 >It returns 1 for me.  To make it right, I need this:
 >    (progn
 >      (goto-char (point-max))
 >      (sit-for 0)
 >      (window-start))
 >
 >...but the forced redisplay slows things down and potentially makes
 >them uglier.

 The problem is you have to calculate display lines to get this sort of
 result, cf current-pixel-column. 
Do you mean that `window-start' is in this regard different than
`window-end'?

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