From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Overlay arrow in *compilation* and *grep* buffers Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 12:05:44 -0400 Message-ID: References: <01c548ba$Blat.v2.4$e4827900@zahav.net.il> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1114445094 30804 80.91.229.2 (25 Apr 2005 16:04:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 16:04:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 25 18:04:52 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DQ63M-0003Xi-5l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 18:03:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DQ68u-000805-8E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 12:09:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DQ67i-0007ZF-RA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 12:07:50 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DQ67h-0007Yo-QX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 12:07:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DQ67h-00078z-Lf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 12:07:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DQ69s-00081T-IX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 12:10:04 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DQ65g-0005hG-Kq; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 12:05:44 -0400 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-reply-to: <01c548ba$Blat.v2.4$e4827900@zahav.net.il> (eliz@gnu.org) 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:36368 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:36368 Notice the overlay arrow that covered part of the file name: this is a bug, IMHO. If we want to have an arrow pointing out the current line, we should indent the buffer text to the right as many columns as the arrow string takes. It might be good to do that when overlaying the arrow on a compilation error buffer, but it would be a misfeature to do that when overlaying the arrow on a program file (which was the original use of the overlay arrow). Perhaps we need a user option to control these two features (scrolling and arrow) in a way that would by default prevent scrolling when the arrow is used to show the current line. Also, the arrow feature is not customizable. What about users who will dislike it and would wish to turn it off? I'd probably prefer to turn off the arrow and use just the scrolling, for compilation buffers.