From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 29d1c72: Introduce new value t for compilation-context-lines to eliminate scrolling Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 22:49:14 +0300 Message-ID: <83y2zecrt1.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20190825102322.19558.22771@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20190825102323.5080620CD5@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20190825190637.GE4724@ACM> <838srhghoc.fsf@gnu.org> <20190827193652.GA20676@ACM> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="185341"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 27 21:50:48 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1i2hUO-000m53-1x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Aug 2019 21:50:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56424 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i2hUM-0000L5-T4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Aug 2019 15:50:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40391) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i2hSw-0007sc-3O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Aug 2019 15:49:19 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:35737) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i2hSv-0001CB-Rk; Tue, 27 Aug 2019 15:49:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1888 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1i2hSu-0000Gq-9g; Tue, 27 Aug 2019 15:49:17 -0400 In-reply-to: <20190827193652.GA20676@ACM> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Tue, 27 Aug 2019 19:36:52 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:239624 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 19:36:52 +0000 > Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Alan Mackenzie > > +(defvar compilation-dummy-string ">" > + "A string which is only a placeholder for compilation-margin-string. > +It's actual value is never used, but must be one character long.") ^^^^ "Its". Btw, it is customary to use just " " for such purposes. Thanks.