From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: grep-mode should print default-directory (again) Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:12:37 -0400 Message-ID: <87odlspau2.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <17946.11401.381541.518837@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <17946.53750.886235.857427@farnswood.snap.net.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1176477052 20687 80.91.229.12 (13 Apr 2007 15:10:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:10:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Nick Roberts , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 13 17:10:43 2007 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 1HcNQ5-0003U2-IL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:10:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HcNUM-0007oI-Nk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:15:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HcNUI-0007o2-Il for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:14:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HcNUI-0007nq-4y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:14:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HcNUH-0007nn-Uu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:14:57 -0400 Original-Received: from cyd.mit.edu ([18.19.1.138]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HcNPz-0002Jv-9u; Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:10:31 -0400 Original-Received: by cyd.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id ABF9F4E44F; Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:12:37 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu\, 12 Apr 2007 21\:42\:55 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.97 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:69400 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > AFAICS compilation-directory is just used with recompile and it gets set by > M-x compile (through default-directory). > > Damn, you're right. That means the change to set compilation-directory > instead of default-directory was no good. It broke the feature. > > I can see only two ways to fix this: > > * Go back to setting and saving default-directory, as before, and mark > it safe. (I don't find the arguments against this entirely convincing.) > > * Make compilation-directory affect next-error, overriding > default-directory. I reverted to setting and saving default-directory. I guess there is the risk isn't considerable (or at least no worse than what we had in Emacs 21).