GNU bug report logs - #1092
compilation-goto-error goes to wrong location when buffer has hidden regions

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Package: emacs;

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 #53 received at 1092 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: ahyatt <at> gmail.com, 1092 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#1092: compilation-goto-error goes to wrong location when
 buffer has hidden regions
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2016 14:39:44 -0500

>> 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.

For the selective-display=t case, we have had replacement features in
place and in wide use for what, twenty years?
We can very definitely declare this use case obsolete and stop trying to
fix problems we bump into when it's used.


        Stefan
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