From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Espen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: compile buffer: hide/collapse displayed file paths? Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 15:27:16 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1372707172 9646 80.91.229.3 (1 Jul 2013 19:32:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 19:32:52 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 01 21:32:54 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UtjqG-0000mM-3d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 21:32:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42770 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UtjqF-0001YF-Ko for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 15:32:51 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx05.eternal-september.org!.POSTED.pool-74-105-222-215.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 35 Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="pool-74-105-222-215.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net:74.105.222.215"; logging-data="1428"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="danespen" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:MmT9otJR9Ez2IQoghUZ+sIz+HGk= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:199625 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 15:32:43 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:91892 Archived-At: Grant Edwards writes: > On 2013-06-30, Dan Espen wrote: >> Grant Edwards writes: >> >>> I don't really want the lines wrapped (which is what happens when you >>> unset truncate-lines). I'd like the errors to remain one-per-line, >>> but I want to hide the long path info that I don't care about (emacs >>> has opened the file and moved the cursor to the right source line, so >>> there's no need for me to see the file's path in the compile buffer >>> window). >> >> Did you explain why you have long paths? > > No, I didn't realize it was relevent to the question. > >> Are your Makefiles using full paths? > > Yes. The makefiles are auto-generated by an OS build system over which > I don't have control. Bummer. >> I used to have a few Makefiles like that and I decided it was not a >> good idea. > > Perhaps, but in this case, the relative path name from the build > directory to the source directory would in most cases be even longer > than the absolute path name. I'm an advocate for hand crafted Makefiles but I don't suppose you can do much to change that where you are. -- Dan Espen