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: use faces on the mode-line for compile.el Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 19:34:43 +1200 Message-ID: <17479.14739.797810.757480@farnswood.snap.net.nz> References: <200604200620.k3K6KB7T019392@scanner2.ics.uci.edu> 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 1145518518 30344 80.91.229.2 (20 Apr 2006 07:35:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 07:35:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 20 09:35:14 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FWTgx-0000EY-Of for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 09:35:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FWTgx-0000Jz-3O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 03:35:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FWTge-0000Hq-Gi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 03:34:48 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FWTgc-0000Fe-WF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 03:34:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FWTgc-0000FV-Sh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 03:34:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [202.37.101.8] (helo=viper.snap.net.nz) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FWThu-0007Iu-2Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 03:36:06 -0400 Original-Received: from farnswood.snap.net.nz (p202-124-114-187.snap.net.nz [202.124.114.187]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6055754C2C; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 19:34:41 +1200 (NZST) Original-Received: by farnswood.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 500) id 5E4A562A99; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 08:34:44 +0100 (BST) Original-To: Dan Nicolaescu In-Reply-To: <200604200620.k3K6KB7T019392@scanner2.ics.uci.edu> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.0.50.38 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:53122 Archived-At: > If the mode-line for the compilation buffer would be a bit more > visible it would be easier to see if a compilation is still running > (which is handy if you have compilations that take a long time and > don't want to spend too much time checking if it's done). > Also if the compilation fails it's nice to be able to see it faster. > > A simple patch can accomplish the above. It uses > font-lock-warning-face which is designed to be highly visible. > > IMO this is a very nice feature to have, and simple to implement... > > Thoughts? Font-lock-warning-face is normally used to report warnings or errors, not normal progress like "run". *Every* modeline already displays the keyword "Compiling" during compilation. It will only be seen if the compilation buffer is visible and this is already heavily fontified. If we are ever going to get to a pretest then I think we need to stop suggesting new features. -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob