Re: next-error-last-buffer

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Tue, 11 May 2004, juri@jurta.org wrote:

> It seems nobody really tried yet to use two or more different
> compile/grep/occur processes at the same time.  Otherwise,
> it would be apparent that this behavior is the most useful.

Juri,

while I have no particular attachment to the current next-error logic
or to your replacement suggestions, I'd like to mention that my goal
when I wrote the next-error patch was NOT to facilitate multiple
grep/compile/occur processes simultaneously, but to provide a SINGLE
interface to all of them through next-error.  In other words, I wanted
C-x ` to work no matter what single task I was doing.  It's very
possible that different approaches to multiple next-error client
buffers will emerge from this discussion; my only suggestion is that
the eventual API should have a few presets, but otherwise be
function-based so users can install any logic they like.  The basic
question we want to ask the user is, "what next?" and DWIM can be
very hard with such intuitive tasks.

I'll be glad to help with suggestions and code to implement the
changes you want in the next-error API.

Thanks
Ted