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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, Simon.Marshall@misys.com, rms@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [21.1.90]: point put at point-min in *compilation*
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:09:22 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvzludbuwb.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ve51iyfp.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Thu, 07 Feb 2008 06:10:02 +0900")

>> > I would guess that a default of t for
>> > compilation-scroll-output would be better that the current
>> > default of nil, but YMMV.  When I'm compiling, I generally
>> > want to see progress, so I generally want Emacs to scroll the
>> > window for me.
>> 
>> Agreed,
>> 
>> I disagree.  I find that I can't read the output of compilation if it
>> scrolls.  Compilers are too fast these days!  Now, if we could slow them
>> down, maybe it would be ok to scroll the output.  Any ideas?

> Two different use cases here.  For Richard, the actual output is
> important; for example, maybe he wants to see compilation warnings.
> For the others, only motion (scrolling) is important as an indicator
> of progress, and they want to see the error (if any) or successful
> completion immediately when it happens.

If you use compilation-auto-jump-first-error, then whether it jumps to
the first error or the first warning depends on your
compilation-skip-threshold.


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-06 22:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-04 14:49 [21.1.90]: point put at point-min in *compilation* Marshall, Simon
2008-02-04 15:14 ` Chong Yidong
2008-02-04 15:55   ` Marshall, Simon
2008-02-04 16:37     ` Drew Adams
2008-02-04 17:29       ` Marshall, Simon
2008-02-04 15:40 ` Chong Yidong
2008-02-04 20:50   ` Glenn Morris
2008-02-05  1:24 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-05  9:19   ` Marshall, Simon
2008-02-05 16:15     ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-06 16:11       ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-06 16:17         ` David Kastrup
2008-02-06 17:03           ` Marshall, Simon
2008-02-07  0:44             ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-07  2:41               ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-07 19:52                 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-07  9:55               ` Marshall, Simon
2008-02-07  9:59                 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-07 10:02                 ` David Kastrup
2008-02-07 15:10                   ` Marshall, Simon
2008-02-07 15:29                     ` David Kastrup
2008-02-07 15:50                       ` Marshall, Simon
2008-02-07 16:09                         ` David Kastrup
2008-02-07 16:35                           ` Marshall, Simon
2008-02-07 15:28                   ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-07 19:59                 ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-08  4:16                 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-06 17:14         ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-07  1:57           ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-07  3:30             ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-07 19:57               ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-08  9:22                 ` Marshall, Simon
2008-02-08 14:46                   ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-06 21:10         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-02-06 22:09           ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-02-07 19:52           ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-07 21:13             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-02-08  4:15               ` Richard Stallman

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