bug#216: marked as done (next-error wrong position in target file)

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Your message dated Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:44:46 -0400
with message-id <87iqup6bf5.fsf@stupidchicken.com>
and subject line Re: next-error wrong position in target file
has caused the Emacs bug report #216,
regarding next-error wrong position in target file
to be marked as done.

This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.

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From: jidanni@jidanni.org
To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: next-error wrong position in target file
Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 08:52:20 +0800
Message-ID: <87iqxl8xx7.fsf@jidanni.org>

I can reproduce this bug he sent, and encountered it often in the
past but couldn't make a good test case as he just did. Please fix!



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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>, jidanni@jidanni.org
Cc: 216-done@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: Re: next-error wrong position in target file
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:44:46 -0400
Message-ID: <87iqup6bf5.fsf@stupidchicken.com>

> In Emacs 22.2, the first `next-error' in certain circumstances goes to
> the wrong error line in the target file.  With the dummy file foo.txt
> below, and on a 50 line console,
>
>     emacs -Q foo.txt
>     C-v               # page down in foo.txt
>     C-x b Ret         # back to *scratch* buffer
>     M-x compile
>     echo 'foo.txt:''150: an error here'
>     C-x `             # next-error
>
>     => goes to foo.txt with point at line 56
>
> The echo simply produces a compilation buffer claiming an error at
> foo.txt line 150, but then next-error goes to line 56.  On a different
> size terminal or under X you get a different wrong position, like line
> 45 or 24.

I've checked in a fix.  Thanks.