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: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 06:15:05 -0400 Message-ID: References: <01c548ba$Blat.v2.4$e4827900@zahav.net.il> <17008.51785.631924.784654@farnswood.snap.net.nz> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1114769713 15972 80.91.229.2 (29 Apr 2005 10:15:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 10:15:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 29 12:15:11 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DRSVx-0007rd-Rq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 12:14:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DRScF-0007Pr-Fw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 06:20:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DRSZ2-0006lY-7x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 06:17:40 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DRSZ0-0006kV-0C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 06:17:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DRSYz-0005Y9-7j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 06:17:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DRSby-0002Yf-8w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 06:20:42 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DRSWX-0006mA-8l; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 06:15:05 -0400 Original-To: Nick Roberts In-reply-to: <17008.51785.631924.784654@farnswood.snap.net.nz> (message from Nick Roberts on Thu, 28 Apr 2005 23:34:33 +1200) 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:36499 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:36499 SM> I recently realized that while the 0-context sometimes makes sense for SM> C-x `, the "don't move" behavior would be preferable when getting SM> to an error by using RET or mouse-2 on the actual error text. That is true *if* we use the overlay arrow. However, as has just been pointed out, using the overlay arrow in error message lists is very annoying on text consoles. On text consoles, I think it would be better to move to the top, even for RET or Mouse-2, than to display the overlay arrow. They were discussed as part of a thread that started as a bug report on emacs-pretest-bug: fringe arrow conflict between compile and gud? JUAN-LEON Lahoz Garcia Wed, 23 Mar 2005 Sometimes a bug fix can cause new problems that need other fixes. And sometimes the only clean way to fix a bug requires adding a small feature.