Re: find-file-hook, recenter, scroll-conservatively and save-place

[martin rudalics]

>> Juri, should we handle this somehow?  That is, provide 'window-point'
>> and 'window-start' action alist entries with the former allowing the
>> 'switch-to-buffer-preserve-window-point' logic (among others) and the
>> latter optionally allowing to recenter.
>
> How would you compute window-start in this case so that point is
> centered?

When 'display-buffer' finds a '(window-start . recenter) ALIST entry
it would call 'recenter' after assigning the window buffer.

>> I don't know how 'save-place' could pass these on to the
>> 'pop-to-buffer' call in 'find-file' though.  Can you think of any
>> other use cases where these would be helpful?
>
> save-place installs a find-file-hook, which simply calls goto-char.
> All this happens before pop-to-buffer is called.

Which probably means that no 'window-point' entry is needed -
'(window-point . nil) would mean to use the buffer's point as
window-point.

martin