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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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: bug#1092: compilation-goto-error goes to wrong location when buffer has hidden regions
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selective-display=t around, they've almost all been replaced by uses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
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