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#1092
compilation-goto-error goes to wrong location when buffer has hidden regions
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Reported by: Peter Sanford <pms.mail <at> gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 18:45:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Tags: wontfix
Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #50 received at 1092 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
> Cc: ahyatt <at> gmail.com, 1092 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2016 11:06:19 -0500
>
> >> There are several problems with selective-display:
> >> - first and foremost, the variable provides 2 different features:
> >> - when set to t, it makes CR behave specially (it's a special
> >> line-separator that makes the next line invisible).
> >> - when set to a number, it makes all lines indented deeper than this
> >> number invisible.
> > Why is that a problem?
>
> It's not a problem in itself, no. But it means that if you want to
> obsolete only one of the two uses, you can't just mark the variable
> as obsolete.
We cannot declare it obsolete without replacement features in place to
which we can point.
> > I wish every rarely used display feature was so lightweight as
> > selective-display.
>
> It's not lightweight on the Elisp side where you need to add a lot of
> extra code in ever more places to handle the special meaning of \r in
> that rare case.
I don't see any problem with that, either. Our Lisp code is full of
special cases anyway.
> > Anyway, I don't see how this report of a minor bug should trigger such
> > far-reaching conclusions. It took me all of 5 minutes to fix it; we
> > should have done this 7 years ago. I'm sorry we didn't, but better
> > late than never.
>
> I think the fix is worse than the problem, personally.
Yes, we disagree.
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