From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: ahyatt@gmail.com, 1092@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#1092: compilation-goto-error goes to wrong location when buffer has hidden regions
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2016 12:12:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvio387y4s.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8337uc55px.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 05 Jan 2016 18:52:26 +0200")
>> Declaring a feature obsolete doesn't resolve any problem.
>> It just expresses our intent not to resolve those problems.
> I think it expresses our intent to remove the feature at some point.
That's also true.
> It doesn't necessarily follow that we will let it bitrot until then.
Usually we try to keep it working, i.e. we try to fix *new* bugs.
But we normally stop trying to improve it, so there's no need to fix
bugs that existed long before.
> I understand your intention very well, but I don't agree with such a
> policy. I think as long as the feature is not deleted, we ought to
> fix bugs in it, unless the fix is very complex or could adversely
> affect other packages, or could cause some other complication. Bugs
> are not a vehicle for telling users not to use an obsolete feature.
> If we really want to remove a feature, we should just do that, after
> making sure there's a usable replacement.
The code you changed fixed just one of hundreds of similar cases all
over the Elisp code base. Basically any use of forward-line,
beginning-of-line, line-end-position, ... needs to be adjusted to
account for selective-display=t.
This need to change every package to accommodate the possible use of
selective-display=t is one of the main reasons why we don't want to
support it any more, i.e. why we want to declare it obsolete.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-05 17:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-05 18:38 bug#1092: compilation-goto-error goes to wrong location when buffer has hidden regions Peter Sanford
2008-10-07 1:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-09 18:00 ` Glenn Morris
2016-01-02 21:43 ` Andrew Hyatt
2016-01-03 3:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-03 4:06 ` Glenn Morris
2016-01-03 15:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-03 21:13 ` John Wiegley
2016-01-03 6:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-03 15:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-03 16:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-03 16:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-03 19:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-03 19:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-04 0:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-04 15:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-05 4:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-05 4:28 ` Andrew Hyatt
2016-01-05 16:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-05 16:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-05 17:12 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2016-01-05 17:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-05 20:00 ` John Wiegley
2016-01-07 4:17 ` Stefan Monnier
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