From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: no-spam@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: compilation-highlight-duration Date: 06 May 2004 12:22:58 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20040503.071327.124836670.Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com> <20040504.075437.207586641.Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com> <87llk552oz.fsf@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1083850207 4831 80.91.224.253 (6 May 2004 13:30:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 13:30:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu May 06 15:29:53 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BLiwj-0007CQ-00 for ; Thu, 06 May 2004 15:29:53 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BLiwi-0007oz-00 for ; Thu, 06 May 2004 15:29:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BLicp-0001fp-Hz for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 06 May 2004 09:09:19 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BLiAB-0004ae-Lr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 May 2004 08:39:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BLi3A-0003Id-3D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 May 2004 08:32:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [212.88.64.25] (helo=mail-relay.sonofon.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BLhuq-0002Dd-2D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 May 2004 08:23:52 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 34504 invoked from network); 6 May 2004 12:23:41 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk) (213.83.150.2) by 0 with SMTP; 6 May 2004 12:23:41 -0000 Original-To: David Kastrup In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 29 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:22850 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:22850 David Kastrup writes: > The purpose of the feature freeze is not to release half-baked > stuff. If we introduce this variable in 21.4, then it should remain > with upwards-compatible semantics also in future versions. If we > find that this feature is likely to be replaced by something > different in future versions, we should leave it out completely for > now. > > There is no point in introducing a feature that will only exist for a > single release. My point is that the highlight is there now; some people don't like it, some people want a different duration -- we can achieve that easily with a new variable to tune the existing feature. I don't think the existing feature shall go away in future releases, but we may add different methods of highlighting, e.g. a new compilation-highlight-method variable, and we may add extended values for -duration (such as sticky overlay or whatever). Also the underlaying implementation may change. But in every case, the -duration variable in the proposed form will be (I believe) upwards compatible with such future extensions. Otherwise, I would not have suggested it. -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk