From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Diffs between %s and %s end here Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 02:12:03 -0400 Message-ID: References: <18370.47294.641890.556694@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <18377.55334.203888.524043@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <434pbqcaz5.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <200803021853.m22IrRvA000730@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200803031858.m23IwToH009344@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200803041839.m24Idmis008291@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200803052150.m25Loonc011429@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <85pru5m2ut.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87iqzwzysx.fsf@jurta.org> <87hcfgvpvp.fsf@jurta.org> <87k5kb7pm9.fsf@jurta.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205129638 16354 80.91.229.12 (10 Mar 2008 06:13:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 06:13:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rgm@gnu.org, nickrob@snap.net.nz, emacs-devel@gnu.org, dann@ics.uci.edu, miles@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 10 07:14:25 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 1JYbHC-0001fF-G0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 07:14:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JYbGe-0006SL-9X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 02:13:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JYbEz-0004Kv-Sa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 02:12:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JYbEy-0004IW-3v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 02:12:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JYbEx-0004IB-N2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 02:12:03 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JYbEx-0002fu-Hp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 02:12:03 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JYbEx-000793-1u; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 02:12:03 -0400 In-reply-to: <87k5kb7pm9.fsf@jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 19:57:19 +0200) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: 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:92006 Archived-At: Then we could use the same non-intrusive solution already implemented for compile: when compilation is successful it displays the successful status in the mode line of the compilation buffer in green. When compilation fails, it displays the error code in the mode line in red. Using faces that way seems like a good idea. Still, the arguments offered against inserting a "finished" message, like M-x compile and M-x diff, seem to make much ado about very little.