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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: Overlay arrow in *compilation* and *grep* buffers
Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 21:34:39 -0400
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    I don't like this change because its not the case that one user wants an arrow
    and another doesn't but rather one context may benefit from an arrow
    (graphical display) while another may not (text terminal).

I agree.

And doesn't the current code do exactly this?