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compilation-goto-error goes to wrong location when buffer has hidden regions

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: ahyatt <at> gmail.com, 1092 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#1092: compilation-goto-error goes to wrong location when buffer has hidden regions
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2016 21:49:11 +0200

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
> Cc: ahyatt <at> gmail.com, 1092 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 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?

Which replacements are those?  I mean user commands or settings, not
infrastructure on which to base them.

> We can very definitely declare this use case obsolete

We already did.  And look how well did it serve us.

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