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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: 36832@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36832: Supply option to suppress scrolling in compilation mode buffers.
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 17:21:49 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ef26i8si.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190730193235.GE5427@ACM> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Tue,  30 Jul 2019 19:32:35 +0000)

> Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 19:32:35 +0000
> Cc: 36832@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
> 
> The current code does two things, sometimes, on <CR> being hit: (i) it
> puts an indicator into the fringe; (ii) it scrolls the compile mode
> window upwards, the pertinent line moving either to the top, or to a
> specified window line.
> 
> Unfortunately, the code which does these things seems to be fragmented,
> and there is just one user option to control (i) and (ii) above.
> 
> One solution would be always to mark to the line in the compile mode
> window, whether by an indicator in the fringe or a ">" or "=>" at column
> 0.  Then only scroll the compile mode window when the user has explicitly
> requested this by the user option compilation-context-lines.

Yes, that would be an okay solution.

> Why do these little things so often turn out to be so complicated?  ;-(

;-)





  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-31 14:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-28 20:32 bug#36832: Supply option to suppress scrolling in compilation mode buffers Alan Mackenzie
2019-07-30 15:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-30 15:59   ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-07-30 16:17     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-30 19:20       ` Juri Linkov
2019-07-31 14:20         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-30 19:32       ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-07-31 14:21         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-08-25 10:32           ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-09-01 21:50 ` Mattias Engdegård
     [not found] ` <handler.36832.B.156434595120203.ack@debbugs.gnu.org>
2019-09-03 17:44   ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-09-04 12:41 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-09-05 17:50   ` Alan Mackenzie

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