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.

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