From: Richard M Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>,
2350@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Cc: 2350@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org,
erich@cozi.com
Subject: bug#2350: 23.0.90; compilation-mode inserts output in the wrong location
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:09:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1LZlFM-0000lT-Dg@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvhc2t9fya.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:42:41 -0500)
This is a fundamental problem in `narrow': its meaning is ambiguous.
Sometimes it is used to pretend that the buffer is really smaller than
it is, and other times it's used just to "focus" on a subpart.
The implementation (i.e. most of the C and Elisp code) tend to take the
first point of view, but sometimes users intend the other.
While that is true, as a general statement, it is clear what we should
do to fix this problem: Compilation mode should widen temporarily and
insert at the end of the whole buffer.
Rather than using save-restriction, it should preserve point-max
as a count from the beginning (the value of (point-max) itself).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-18 12:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-17 0:20 bug#2350: 23.0.90; compilation-mode inserts output in the wrong location Eric Hanchrow
2009-02-17 16:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-02-18 12:09 ` Richard M Stallman [this message]
2009-02-18 14:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-02-18 23:05 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-02-18 23:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-02-18 23:05 ` Richard M Stallman
2016-01-21 19:54 ` Alan Third
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