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I'm trying to write my own backend for a certain tool language that has no repl. Hence, I thought it would be the best idea to parse the documentation and store it as a hash table (I'm open to other suggestions, I'm fairly new to Emacs). In general this works fine, the problems arise when the documentation is longer than a display. In this case, I would like to use scroll-other-window like anywhere else to scroll the documentation down, but it immediately jumps back to the top.

This is the basic structure of my backend:

(defconst my--constants
  (list "asdf"
        "bsdf"
        "csdf"))

(defconst my--doc-buffer
  #s(hash-table
     size 3
     test equal
     data("asdf" "Test."
          "bsdf" "Doing\nfine."
          "csdf" "T\nh\ni\ns\n \ni\ns\n \nw\nh\ne\nr\ne\n \ni\nt\n \ng\ne\nt\ns\n \nr\ne\na\nl\nl\ny\n \nm\ne\ns\ns\ny\n.\n \nE\nv\ne\nn\n \nw\ni\nt\nh\n \ns\nc\nr\no\nl\nl\n-\no\nt\nh\ne\nr\n-\nw\ni\nn\nd\no\nw\n \ni\nt\n \nj\nu\nm\np\ns\n \nb\na\nc\nk\n.")))

(define-derived-mode my-mode prog-mode "My")

(defun my-completion-at-point ()
  (let ((bounds (bounds-of-thing-at-point 'word)))
    (when bounds
      (list (car bounds)
            (cdr bounds)
            my--constants
            :exclusive 'no
            :sorted (lambda (cand) t)
            :company-doc-buffer
            (lambda (cand)
              (company-doc-buffer (gethash cand my--doc-buffer)))))))

(add-hook 'completion-at-point-functions 'my-completion-at-point)

When company-show-doc-buffer is called upon csdf, scroll-other-window won't do it's job properly. Instead it immediately jumps back to the head.

Are those \n linebreaks the wrong approach? Am I missing something else? Unfortunately I couldn't find any other backends that use doc-buffers in an offline table. Is it actually the way to go, to use a company-doc-buffer, or is there a more generic thing available/recommended?

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    Works for me. Are you sure you're calling scroll-other-window?
    – Dmitry
    Oct 23, 2019 at 10:39
  • 1
    Thanks a lot for testing, it made me rethink my company configuration.
    – knusprjg
    Oct 23, 2019 at 14:05

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I finally figured out the culprit: company-quickhelp-mode was enabled in my setup which evidently triggered the doc-buffer all the time to reload. After disabling, everything works as expected. I'll try to solve this issue also with company-quickhelp and add my results here later.

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