GNU bug report logs - #17394
24.4.50; enhancement request: split `next-error-function' functionality in two

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Sat, 3 May 2014 04:32:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: wontfix

Found in version 24.4.50

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17394: 24.4.50; enhancement request: split
 `next-error-function' functionality in two
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 15:28:48 +0100

Ted Zlatanov <tzz <at> lifelogs.com> writes:

> This may work for some modes but not others. The `next-error' facility
> is opaque to the caller because each mode has to decide what makes sense
> in terms of locations and motion to them. So I think trying to expose
> more of the internals and formalize them would limit the ways in which
> it can be useful.

Skimming this thread, I agree, so I'm closing this bug report.

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