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: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 19:46:19 +0300 Message-ID: <01c549b6$Blat.v2.4$736372e0@zahav.net.il> References: <01c548ba$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 1114448127 9714 80.91.229.2 (25 Apr 2005 16:55:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 16:55:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 25 18:55:23 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DQ6r8-0003OB-F8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 18:54:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DQ6wg-0003cP-OR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:00:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DQ6wH-0003YG-TS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:00:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DQ6wG-0003Xc-1T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:00:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DQ6wF-0001qX-8J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:00:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.66] (helo=romy.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DQ6o4-0002pt-HY; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 12:51:36 -0400 Original-Received: from zaretski (IGLD-80-230-41-251.inter.net.il [80.230.41.251]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.5.6-GR) with ESMTP id BBN44376 (AUTH halo1); Mon, 25 Apr 2005 19:47:43 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: rms@gnu.org X-Mailer: emacs 22.0.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 2.4 In-reply-to: (message from Richard Stallman on Mon, 25 Apr 2005 12:05:44 -0400) 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:36372 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:36372 > From: Richard Stallman > CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org, juri@jurta.org > Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 12:05:44 -0400 > > Notice the overlay arrow that covered part of the file name: this is a > bug, IMHO. If we want to have an arrow pointing out the current line, > we should indent the buffer text to the right as many columns as the > arrow string takes. > > It might be good to do that when overlaying the arrow on a compilation > error buffer, but it would be a misfeature to do that when overlaying > the arrow on a program file (which was the original use of the overlay > arrow). I was only talking about compilation buffers. Buffers that visit program sources tend to have non-zero indentation which makes this problem almost non-existent. > I'd probably prefer to turn off the arrow and use just the scrolling, > for compilation buffers. I have no problems with that, this is how it worked before the arrow was introduced. Btw, if the intent was to highlight the current line in the compilation buffer, we could do this with a color overlay that spans the entire line. This would make the line stand out without obscuring any of its text.