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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: next-error-highlight = t - highlighting doesn't stay until youmoveto the next locus
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 22:41:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <EIENLHALHGIMHGDOLMIMEECLDAAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1HVgG9-00071d-TK@fencepost.gnu.org>

> Actually, `compilation-goto-locus' is the only place that does
> anything with `next-error-highlight'.  So this is a simple mismatch
> between the code in `compilation-goto-locus' and the doc string of
> `next-error-highlight'.

Yes.

> The current behavior could be desirable, and so could the documented
> behavior for `next-error-highlight' = t.  So how about implementing
> the behavior of "until next time" as another option, and assigning two
> values for `next-error-highlight' to stand for the two?

Just as long as I can choose some value to make it do what the doc string
says, I'll be happy. Thanks.

[However, I cannot imagine anyone preferring the current behavior (for a
value of t). Click the mouse or move the cursor and the highlighting
disappears? How could that be desirable?]

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-26  5:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-20 23:20 next-error-highlight = t - highlighting doesn't stay until you move to the next locus Drew Adams
2007-03-24 16:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-03-24 16:50   ` next-error-highlight = t - highlighting doesn't stay until you moveto " Drew Adams
2007-03-24 17:43     ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-03-24 20:59       ` Drew Adams
2007-03-26  3:52         ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-26  5:41           ` Drew Adams [this message]
2007-03-26  6:06             ` next-error-highlight = t - highlighting doesn't stay until youmoveto " Miles Bader
2007-03-26 13:13             ` Stefan Monnier
2007-03-26 15:00               ` Drew Adams
2007-03-26 15:34                 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-03-26 15:56                   ` next-error-highlight = t - highlighting doesn't stay untilyoumoveto " Drew Adams
2007-03-26 16:41                     ` Chong Yidong
2007-03-26 16:51                       ` Drew Adams
2007-03-26 17:49                         ` Chong Yidong
2007-03-28  4:56                           ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-28 16:10                             ` next-error-highlight = t - highlighting doesn't stayuntilyoumoveto " Drew Adams
2007-03-28 18:52                               ` Chong Yidong
2007-03-29 15:33                               ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-28 18:36                             ` next-error-highlight = t - highlighting doesn't stay untilyoumoveto " Chong Yidong
2007-03-26 23:13             ` next-error-highlight = t - highlighting doesn't stay until youmoveto " Richard Stallman

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