bug#8723: 23.2; Flymake should go to error column

[Stefan Kangas]

"D Chiesa" <dpchiesa@hotmail.com> writes:

> Flymake relies on compilation error patterns, similar to
> compilation-error-regexp-alist , to detect errors and warnings.  But
> flymake discards column information for any errors, and as a result,
> the functions flymake-goto-next-error and flymake-goto-prev-error do
> not position the cursor on the error column.

I don't think this is the case these days, after the redesign of flymake
that João did in 2017 or so.  I'm therefore closing this bug report.

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