From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Overlay arrow in *compilation* and *grep* buffers Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 23:04:54 +0300 Message-ID: <01c54909$Blat.v2.4$070f3e60@zahav.net.il> References: <01c548ba$Blat.v2.4$e4827900@zahav.net.il> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1114373269 5031 80.91.229.2 (24 Apr 2005 20:07:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 20:07:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 24 22:07:47 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DPnO4-0001pv-Ee for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2005 22:07:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DPnTR-00023Y-Tc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2005 16:13:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DPnTF-00022I-RI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2005 16:12:50 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DPnTC-00021c-MQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2005 16:12:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DPnTC-0001lz-In for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2005 16:12:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.66] (helo=romy.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DPnQB-0001oC-R7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2005 16:09:40 -0400 Original-Received: from zaretski (IGLD-80-230-58-44.inter.net.il [80.230.58.44]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.5.6-GR) with ESMTP id BBK45093 (AUTH halo1); Sun, 24 Apr 2005 23:06:16 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: storm@cua.dk X-Mailer: emacs 22.0.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 2.4 In-reply-to: (storm@cua.dk) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:36335 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:36335 > From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) > Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 20:42:47 +0200 > Cc: Juri Linkov , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > "Eli Zaretskii" writes: > > > =>wd.c:5: warning: implicit declaration of function `bar' > > On text terminals, the overlay-arrow is just that --- an overlay arrow. > So it is not a bug ... By ``bug'' in this case I meant a design bug. It's at least a bad misfeature, and surely shouldn't be on by default in compilation buffers. Unlike buffers that display program sources (where GUD uses the overlay arrow), whose most lines tend to be indented, compilation buffers have almost all of their lines start at column zero, so the arrow will always hide something. > > Also, the arrow feature is not customizable. What about users who > > will dislike it and would wish to turn it off? > > What about > > (put 'next-error-overlay-arrow-position 'overlay-arrow-string "") That's not what is usually meant by ``customizable''. Let me be sure I understand you correctly, Kim: are you actually saying that this is a good feature, the way it behaves in current CVS?