On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> wrote: > Looking through the code in display_update_window_1, I don't see any > attempt to handle this situation. Does the code assume that writing a > character at the last column of the last display line doesn't cause > such a scroll? If so, is that a portable assumption, even if only > Posix TTYs are considered? ISTR that in the Less program there is a > more elaborate handling of at least 3 different behaviors in this > situation, perhaps Info should do something similar as well?
It's probably best not to print in that display location. I think there may have used to be code to check for this, but I must have removed it at some point along with other changes. I'll try to have a look at this in the next few days.
