From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tak Ota Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: compilation-highlight-duration Date: Sun, 02 May 2004 09:47:37 -0700 (PDT) Organization: Sony Electronics Inc. Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20040502.094737.207589082.Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com> References: <20040430.222901.226022286.Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1083516708 14962 80.91.224.253 (2 May 2004 16:51:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 16:51:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun May 02 18:51:40 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BKKBo-0003S4-00 for ; Sun, 02 May 2004 18:51:40 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BKKBo-0004Ze-00 for ; Sun, 02 May 2004 18:51:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BKKAk-00021C-Mq for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 02 May 2004 12:50:34 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BKK9t-0001gt-65 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 May 2004 12:49:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BKK9B-0000BJ-Ft for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 May 2004 12:49:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [160.33.82.68] (helo=mail1.fw-sj.sony.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.30) id 1BKK8a-0007OO-BQ; Sun, 02 May 2004 12:48:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mail3.sjc.in.sel.sony.com (mail3.sjc.in.sel.sony.com [43.134.1.211]) by mail1.fw-sj.sony.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i42Glw8O022995; Sun, 2 May 2004 16:48:03 GMT Original-Received: from localhost ([43.134.220.38]) by mail3.sjc.in.sel.sony.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i42Glcuu010275; Sun, 2 May 2004 16:47:38 GMT Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-Telephone: +1-858-942-3239 X-Fax------: +1-858-942-9142 X-SnailMail: 16450 West Bernardo Drive MZ7205, San Diego, CA 92127-1804 X-Mailer: Mew-4.0.65 on Emacs-21.3.50.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.1.2600) of 2004-04-30 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:22542 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:22542 Sat, 01 May 2004 13:51:05 -0400: Richard Stallman wrote: > New compile.el is very nice and I particularly like the highlight > feature. However, the hard coded duration of 0.5 second could be too > short or too long depending on the clock speed of the users' brain. > > What exactly is that .5 second delay used for? The code doesn't > have many comments and I am not sure what job it is doing. When `next-error' and `next-error-no-select' are executed the subject line is highlighted momentarily for 0.5 seconds. The grep mode uses `next-error-no-select' and this momentary highlighting plays important role to inform a user where the match exists. The doc string of `next-error-no-select' briefly touches upon the highlighting. -Tak