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: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 13:12:29 -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 1372617292 2835 80.91.229.3 (30 Jun 2013 18:34:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 18:34:52 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 30 20:34:53 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 1UtMSa-0001fx-LU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Jun 2013 20:34:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50660 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UtMSa-0002yg-9u for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Jun 2013 14:34:52 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx05.eternal-september.org!.POSTED.pool-74-105-227-117.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="pool-74-105-227-117.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net:74.105.227.117"; logging-data="11932"; 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: sha1:7u6fyZcFlN9JpQxH+n9RICZDwhU= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:199606 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 14:33:51 -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:91876 Archived-At: Grant Edwards writes: > On 2013-06-29, Peter Dyballa wrote: >> >> Am 29.06.2013 um 01:05 schrieb Grant Edwards: >> >>> Is there any way to collapse/hide the file paths being shown in the >>> compiler buffer window so that I can see the compiler error/warning >>> messages without all the keyboard gymanstics? >> >> The variable truncate-lines could be involved. I have not set it and >> I don't see any truncated lines. > > 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? Are your Makefiles using full paths? I used to have a few Makefiles like that and I decided it was not a good idea. -- Dan Espen