From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: use faces on the mode-line for compile.el
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 12:53:13 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200802242053.m1OKrDPR007533@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87hcfy45iv.fsf@jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:40:21 +0200")
Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> writes:
> > 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.
> > It can be seen with just the peripheral vision, or from farther away
> > from the screen.
>
> I think it would be more useful if the result message displayed
> in the minibuffer was the same as at the end of the compilation
> buffer, i.e.
>
> Compilation exited abnormally with code 1 at Sun Feb 24 19:36:34
>
> The date part at the end of this message may be not necessary
> when displayed in the minibuffer.
That was just a debug leftover...
> > A simple patch can accomplish the above. It uses
> > font-lock-warning-face which is designed to be highly visible.
>
> What do you think about using a special compilation face
> `compilation-error' that inherits from `font-lock-warning-face'?
No opinion, feel free to change it if it works...
> But maybe we should add a new face?
We have enough faces, there should be a suitable one...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-24 20:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-23 23:59 use faces on the mode-line for compile.el Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-24 13:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-24 20:48 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-24 17:40 ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-24 20:53 ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
2008-02-24 23:23 ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-26 2:00 ` Xavier Maillard
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2006-04-20 6:20 Dan Nicolaescu
2006-04-20 7:34 ` Nick Roberts
2006-04-20 18:27 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2006-04-21 13:07 ` Richard Stallman
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