Re: Why do org-agenda-switch-to and org-agenda-goto put the point in different spots in the target buffer?

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>]

"Rohit Patnaik" <quanticle@quanticle.net> writes:

>> Recentering is purely a visual thing. It should be safe to add.
>
> I've added the recentering behavior in the attached patch. The recentering part
> was more important for me than the point jumping to the heading, because
> sometimes the match would appear at the very top of the screen and I'd have to
> scroll up manually to see the heading. If the screen is centered on the match,
> then it's likely that the heading will also be visible in the window.

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> @@ -9741,6 +9741,7 @@ displayed Org file fills the frame."
>        (goto-char pos)
>        (when (derived-mode-p 'org-mode)
>  	(org-fold-show-context 'agenda)
> +        (recenter (/ (window-height) 2))

Another option could be extending org-fold-show-context-detail so that
one can set something like

((agenda . local recenter) ;; <---
 (bookmark-jump . lineage)
 (isearch . lineage)
 (default . ancestors))

It will be more flexible.

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