bug#58649: 28.1: Possibly obsolete function `flymake-display-err-menu-for-current-line' in Emacs manual

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2022 23:49:38 +0000 (UTC)
> From:  Mark Harig via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> 
> 
> In the Emacs manual, in the sub-section `(emacs) Flymake',
> there is the following sentence:
> 
>    To display any error messages associated with the current
>    line, type ‘M-x flymake-display-err-menu-for-current-line’.
> 
> But M-x flymake-display-err-menu-for-current-line says that there
> are no matches for that function.  Likewise, a search of the file
> `flymake.el' that is included with Emacs 28.1 shows no definition
> for the identifier `flymake-display-err-menu-for-current-line'.

It was deleted in October 2017, since it didn't work.  I guess the
manual was not updated back then.

> In the Flymake user manual, in the sub-section `(flymake) Finding
> diagnostics', there is the following paragraph:
> 
>    Sometimes it is useful to have a detailed overview of the
>    diagnostics in your files without having to jump to each one.
>    The commands `flymake-show-buffer-diagnostics' and
>    `flymake-show-project-diagnostics' are designed to handle this
>    situation.  When invoked, they bring up a separate buffer
>    containing a detailed structured listing of multiple diagnostics
>    in the current buffer or for the current project, respectively
>    (*note (emacs)Projects::).
> 
> In NEWS file for Emacs 28.1, `flymake-show-project-diagnostics'
> is listed as a new command.  Both that function and
> `flymake-show-buffer-diagnostics' work and might be the
> replacements for the obsolete function.

Thanks, done.