Subject: Re: bug#1092: compilation-goto-error goes to wrong location when buffer has hidden regions

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2016 19:42:50 -0500

>> For the selective-display=t case, we have had replacement features in
>> place and in wide use for what, twenty years?
> Which replacements are those?  I mean user commands or settings, not
> infrastructure on which to base them.

selective-display=t gives no user command, so I have no idea what you're
expecting as "user command" to replace it.  There are almost no uses of 
selective-display=t around, they've almost all been replaced by uses
of overlays.

>> We can very definitely declare this use case obsolete
> We already did.  And look how well did it serve us.

Which problem did its obsolescence cause?

        Stefan