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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
Cc: 65713@debbugs.gnu.org, jidanni@jidanni.org
Subject: bug#65713: compilation-next-error says: Moved past last error, even when none
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2023 12:07:36 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <831qff8w13.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmmzH-+p4w6VDF9oFX=NfLCBenMEoMicu0MCYdg8maeaOQ@mail.gmail.com> (message from Stefan Kangas on Sun, 3 Sep 2023 02:00:50 -0700)

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2023 02:00:50 -0700
> Cc: 65713@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> OK, there was no error, so instead of "Moved past last error" it should
> >> say "Didn't find any errors" when asked.
> >
> > FWIW, I don't see any need for such a feature.  "Moved past the last
> > error" is correct even if there are no errors, and complicating the
> > code for such hair-splitting is not justified, IMO.
> 
> The problem I see is that we're displaying a general message, when a
> more specific one could have been displayed instead.  I'm not against
> fixing this minor blemish, if it can be done in a clean way.

Would it be enough to say something like

  Moved past last error, if any

?





  reply	other threads:[~2023-09-03  9:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-03  8:19 bug#65713: compilation-next-error says: Moved past last error, even when none Dan Jacobson
2023-09-03  8:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-03  9:00   ` Stefan Kangas
2023-09-03  9:07     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-09-03 14:07       ` Dan Jacobson
2023-09-03 14:40       ` Stefan Kangas
2023-09-04 22:57   ` Rudolf Adamkovič via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-09-05 11:15     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-03 20:18       ` Rudolf Adamkovič via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-05  8:02         ` Eli Zaretskii

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