harmonize grep, occur and compile

harmonize grep, occur and compile

[Matzi Kratzi]

grep, occur and compile all enables the user to jump to postions in
files or buffers. Occur has the ability to stay in the *occur*-buffer
while showing the occurence point is at using
occur-mode-display-occurrence. The line is centered in the buffer that
occured was started from.

It would be nice if this line could be highlighted as compile use to do.

This way the user can do a broad occur and then walk around in the
resulting buffer and cherrypick lines that he is interested in. It
will the be easy to find this line in its original context.

Thanks for emacs anyway.

Re: harmonize grep, occur and compile

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:49:13 +0100 "Matzi Kratzi" <matzikratzi@gmail.com> wrote: 

MK> grep, occur and compile all enables the user to jump to postions in
MK> files or buffers. Occur has the ability to stay in the *occur*-buffer
MK> while showing the occurence point is at using
MK> occur-mode-display-occurrence. The line is centered in the buffer that
MK> occured was started from.

MK> It would be nice if this line could be highlighted as compile use to do.

MK> This way the user can do a broad occur and then walk around in the
MK> resulting buffer and cherrypick lines that he is interested in. It
MK> will the be easy to find this line in its original context.

I generally "walk around" the list of matches with next-error and
previous-error which work in all three types of buffers you are
interested in.  I've even mapped those to / and * on my keypad, I use
them so often.  You can use those commands in the original buffer,
without jumping to the list of matches.

I hope this helps.  It doesn't answer your highlighting question, but I
find I don't need highlighting when I just jump to the right location
every time.

Ted

Re: harmonize grep, occur and compile

[Juri Linkov]

> MK> grep, occur and compile all enables the user to jump to postions in
> MK> files or buffers. Occur has the ability to stay in the *occur*-buffer
> MK> while showing the occurence point is at using
> MK> occur-mode-display-occurrence. The line is centered in the buffer that
> MK> occured was started from.
>
> MK> It would be nice if this line could be highlighted as compile use to do.
>
> MK> This way the user can do a broad occur and then walk around in the
> MK> resulting buffer and cherrypick lines that he is interested in. It
> MK> will the be easy to find this line in its original context.
>
> I generally "walk around" the list of matches with next-error and
> previous-error which work in all three types of buffers you are
> interested in.  I've even mapped those to / and * on my keypad, I use
> them so often.  You can use those commands in the original buffer,
> without jumping to the list of matches.
>
> I hope this helps.  It doesn't answer your highlighting question, but I
> find I don't need highlighting when I just jump to the right location
> every time.

There is a special face `next-error'.  So why not to use it to highlight
occur matches as they are already highlighted for compile/grep?

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/