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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: grep-mode should print default-directory (again)
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:49:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv7isgbd2j.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1HcAoR-0001vP-SN@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu\, 12 Apr 2007 21\:42\:55 -0400")

>     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.)

I personally find the arguments *for* it unconvincing.

> * Make compilation-directory affect next-error, overriding
>   default-directory.

Whatever happened to the other option:

* only add the default-directory cookie upon save and only when saving to
  a different directory.


        Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-13 13:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-09 12:07 grep-mode should print default-directory (again) Nick Roberts
2007-04-09 22:52 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-09 23:53   ` Nick Roberts
2007-04-13  1:42     ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-13 13:49       ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2007-04-13 21:43         ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-13 15:12       ` Chong Yidong
2007-04-13 19:10         ` Stefan Monnier
2007-04-13 21:54           ` Nick Roberts
2007-04-15 13:59             ` Richard Stallman

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