From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Changes to emacs/doc/emacs/building.texi,v Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:35:40 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87bpwe56bn.fsf@jurta.org> References: <87y6zjkyvo.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1226961370 21087 80.91.229.12 (17 Nov 2008 22:36:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:36:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 17 23:37:14 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L2CiV-0007gj-Dk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:37:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51121 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L2ChM-0000GB-Fv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:36:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L2ChH-0000E8-37 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:35:55 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L2ChE-0000Dl-OK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:35:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55898 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L2ChE-0000Di-IB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:35:52 -0500 Original-Received: from relay03.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.201]:55992) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L2ChE-0007NM-De for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:35:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay03.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1L2Ch9-000Pvd-3r; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:35:47 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:25:52 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-Scanner-Signature: 5389b9e13478507b5d7b23e4ed053241 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Trusted X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 5467 [Oct 22 2008] X-SpamTest-Info: {received from trusted relay: common white list} X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Method: white ip list X-SpamTest-Rate: 10 X-SpamTest-Status: Trusted X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: trusted X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0278], KAS30/Release X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:105764 Archived-At: >> If non-nil, automatically jump to the first error after `compile'. >> A better variant would be: >> If non-nil, automatically jump to the first error during `compile'. > > I'm not convinced: `compile' runs the command asynchronously, so the > jump is definitely done *after* compile, strictly speaking. Maybe it > should just not say `compile', especially since it's also used in > circumstances where `compile' is not involved (e.g. sml-compile which > passes the compilation request to an inferior process running in > a comint buffer). > > So, I'd prefer "during compilation" rather than "during `compile'". Certainly, there is uncertainty in the phrase "after `compile'" as it can mean both "after starting" and "after finishing". I agree that the phrase "during compilation" has no such problems. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/