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

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Message #83 received at 1092 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

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: Re: bug#1092: compilation-goto-error goes to wrong location when
 buffer has hidden regions
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2016 19:27:55 +0200

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
> Cc: ahyatt <at> gmail.com, 1092 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2016 12:12:51 -0500
> 
> The code you changed fixed just one of hundreds of similar cases all
> over the Elisp code base.  Basically any use of forward-line,
> beginning-of-line, line-end-position, ... needs to be adjusted to
> account for selective-display=t.
> 
> This need to change every package to accommodate the possible use of
> selective-display=t is one of the main reasons why we don't want to
> support it any more, i.e. why we want to declare it obsolete.

I didn't say we should fix all of the potential bugs, only those which
were reported, i.e. those which actually bother someone.

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