From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: "Recent" changes to compilation-mode? Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 19:55:55 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87d5rfcjem.fsf@jurta.org> References: <17040.64813.804833.286809@farnswood.snap.net.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1117043955 17478 80.91.229.2 (25 May 2005 17:59:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 17:59:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: nickrob@snap.net.nz, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 25 19:59:13 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Db08M-0008LL-8v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 May 2005 19:57:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Db0CG-0003Ui-FS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 May 2005 14:01:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Db04p-00061t-Ji for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 May 2005 13:53:59 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Db04k-0005zb-Jf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 May 2005 13:53:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Db04j-0005vi-Su for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 May 2005 13:53:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [194.126.101.111] (helo=mail.neti.ee) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Db010-0001vB-77 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 May 2005 13:49:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.neti.ee (80-235-43-6-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.43.6]) by Relayhost2.neti.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7557A5535; Wed, 25 May 2005 20:50:18 +0300 (EEST) Original-To: David Abrahams In-Reply-To: (David Abrahams's message of "Mon, 23 May 2005 09:25:11 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-2.2.1 (20041222) (Debian) at neti.ee X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:37631 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:37631 > Yeah, there's a tiny arrow there. The problem is that the diagnostics > typically span several lines and are often quite dense, and the arrow > isn't quite enough to help me distinguish the boundaries of the > diagnostic being indicated by the arrow. Would it be possible to add > some kind of highlighting to the current error, similar to what I get > when hovering the mouse over it? Recently I proposed a patch that does exactly what you want, i.e. highlights the whole current error message with a special user option. You can get the patch here: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2005-05/msg00561.html This patch is too good for the coming release. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/