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In a fresh emacs session, each time I hit enter in inferior-python-mode, the window flickers.
This does not happen in shell-mode. One can see the cursor goes to the middle of current window when flickers happen.
How can I get rid of these flickers? Thanks.
Emacs version: GNU Emacs 26.1 (build 2, x86_64-apple-darwin17.5.0, Carbon Version 158 AppKit 1561.4) of 2018-05-25
See the variable comint-scroll-show-maximum-output, which may be somewhat at fault here for the behavior the O.P. experiences -- the default value is t:
Documentation:
Controls how to scroll due to interpreter output.
This variable applies when point is at the end of the buffer
(either because it was originally there, or because
‘comint-move-point-for-output’ said to move it there)
and output from the subprocess is inserted.
Non-nil means scroll so that the window is full of text
and point is on the last line. A value of nil
means don’t do anything special--scroll normally.
See also the variable ‘comint-move-point-for-output’ and the function
‘comint-postoutput-scroll-to-bottom’.
This variable is buffer-local in all Comint buffers.
The flickering appears to be adjustment / scrolling based upon the default behavior of scroll-margin (and some additional re-adjusting by comint, possibly comint-scroll-whow-maximum-output); however, I have not done any real digging into comint and how it may recenter or adjust window-point after output is generated. I personally like (setq scroll-conservatively 101), which seems to fix the issue the O.P. has observed. Feel free to play with scroll-margin and related settings, but they are not necessary if using the aforementioned one-liner. [There is no need to set scroll-conservatively to a number beyond 101 as anything over 100 will have the same effect.]
It is possible to set scroll-conservatively locally with things like setq-local if the O.P. wishes for this to be buffer-local as to only this *Python* buffer.
From the bug reported:
Seems like (setq scroll-conservatively 1) works better to preserve the original behaviour
Worked for me. Having scroll-conservatively set to 1 make flickering less annoying.
