From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: warnings and window-point Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 10:05:30 +0200 Message-ID: <83lfs8wd2t.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="114323"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 22 09:09:49 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iY40j-000Tcz-1T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Nov 2019 09:09:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48276 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iY40h-00062t-SY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Nov 2019 03:09:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:42534) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iY3wL-0008QJ-Uv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Nov 2019 03:05:18 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:49807) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iY3wL-0002tO-LO; Fri, 22 Nov 2019 03:05:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4683 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iY3wJ-0006Q4-Lz; Fri, 22 Nov 2019 03:05:16 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Juanma Barranquero on Fri, 22 Nov 2019 02:01:24 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:242607 Archived-At: > From: Juanma Barranquero > Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 02:01:24 +0100 > > Not sure if that's a bug or a feature, because it's been so since the beginning (it already happens in 22.1, > where warnings.el was introduced). But it is definitely weird. I wouldn't change such old code just because it appears "weird", especially if we have a clue for why it is so: > Perhaps the idea is to keep past warnings visible until the user scrolls the buffer themself