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23.1.94; cross-reference by anchor yields in accurate position

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Message #89 received at 5809 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 5809 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5809: 23.1.94;
	cross-reference by anchor yields in accurate position
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2010 23:47:57 +0300

> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
> Cc: <5809 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
> Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 13:39:00 -0700
> 
> Also, *in practice* this is a *rare* problem. You are making a mountain out of a
> mole hill.

Drew, please try being objective.  You were one of the main pushers
for introducing the breadcrumbs feature, so it's understandable that
you have bias, but please try to hold it back.

> In truth, Eli's dramatic characterization of this problem as "a PITA" and
> 
>   you are placed in the middle of a sentence that,
>   more often than not, has nothing to do with the
>   subject you are after.
> 
> is quite overblown and inaccurate. It is simply not the case, except in rare
> cases.

Well, perhaps I happen to hit only those ``rare cases'', because it
happens all the time to me.

The amount of offset depends on how many other nodes you visited in
the same sub-file, so it's somewhat unpredictable.

Anyway, Juri is actively working on a solution for this bug, and
almost has it done, so this argument is pointless and unnecessary.

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