From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Overlay arrow in *compilation* and *grep* buffers Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 08:54:39 +1200 Message-ID: <17009.19855.763603.487800@farnswood.snap.net.nz> References: <01c548ba$Blat.v2.4$e4827900@zahav.net.il> <01c54909$Blat.v2.4$070f3e60@zahav.net.il> <01c54c2b$Blat.v2.4$e15e8560@zahav.net.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1114723080 1389 80.91.229.2 (28 Apr 2005 21:18:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 21:18:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 28 23:17:56 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DRGNk-0003TX-96 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 23:17:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DRGTw-0001iX-A7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 17:23:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DRGTh-0001iI-Ai for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 17:23:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DRGTf-0001i4-TK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 17:23:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DRGTf-0007bw-QD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 17:23:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.41.67] (helo=mx20.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1DRGRi-0004oj-G6; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 17:21:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [202.37.101.8] (helo=viper.snap.net.nz) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DRGNI-0004aJ-4E; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 17:16:44 -0400 Original-Received: from farnswood.snap.net.nz (p149-tnt2.snap.net.nz [202.124.108.149]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BBC1499A6E; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 09:16:41 +1200 (NZST) Original-Received: by farnswood.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 501) id 79E2962A99; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 21:54:40 +0100 (BST) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: <01c54c2b$Blat.v2.4$e15e8560@zahav.net.il> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.0.50.26 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:36485 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:36485 > > Why not do what was suggested? > > > > (unless (display-graphic-p) > > (put 'next-error-overlay-arrow-position 'overlay-arrow-string "")) > > Wouldn't this affect Edebug on text terminals? No, I don't think so. The thread that was hardly a discussion was about conflicts and covered this. The changes that ensued meant that Edebug and Gnus still use the global variable overlay-arrow-position while compile.el and gud.el have their own overlay arrow, following Kim's earlier work to allow multiple overlay arrows. Nick