On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 08:50:23 +0200, Sebastien Binet <seb.binet@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:09:20 -0700, Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> wrote:
> > Perhaps this is an emacs bug?
> could be, but,
> 
> > I'm using Debian's emacs 23.3.1 and have not encountered the problem
> > described.
> I don't see anything related to 'point', 'point-invisible-p' nor 'forward-char' in there:
> http://patch-tracker.debian.org/package/emacs23/23.3+1-1

Perhaps I was confused. I thought 23.3.1 was a distinct upstream release
From 23.3, but maybe not, (emacs version numbers use 1-based indexing
perhaps?).

> anyways... for the moment I'll just live with it...

Sorry about that.

> except if somebody has some insights on how to "catch" the 'End of
> buffer' error and add some more protective programming around the
> 'scroll-up' function ?

My emacs lisp skills are primarily restricted to actual
experimentation. So if I can replicate the bug, I might be able to find
a fix. I'm not very good at doing theoretical fixes with emacs lisp
code.

-Carl