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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: next-error-highlight = t - highlighting doesn't stay until youmoveto the next locus
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:13:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvhcs8cfo6.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EIENLHALHGIMHGDOLMIMEECLDAAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sun\, 25 Mar 2007 22\:41\:48 -0700")

> [However, I cannot imagine anyone preferring the current behavior (for a
> value of t). Click the mouse or move the cursor and the highlighting
> disappears? How could that be desirable?]

I, for one, cannot imagine anyone preferring the behavior where the
highlighting lives on for ever.  To make it bearable, you'd need at the very
least a special way to make it go away when you don't want it any more.


        Stefan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-03-26 13:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-20 23:20 next-error-highlight = t - highlighting doesn't stay until you move to the next locus Drew Adams
2007-03-24 16:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-03-24 16:50   ` next-error-highlight = t - highlighting doesn't stay until you moveto " Drew Adams
2007-03-24 17:43     ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-03-24 20:59       ` Drew Adams
2007-03-26  3:52         ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-26  5:41           ` next-error-highlight = t - highlighting doesn't stay until youmoveto " Drew Adams
2007-03-26  6:06             ` Miles Bader
2007-03-26 13:13             ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2007-03-26 15:00               ` Drew Adams
2007-03-26 15:34                 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-03-26 15:56                   ` next-error-highlight = t - highlighting doesn't stay untilyoumoveto " Drew Adams
2007-03-26 16:41                     ` Chong Yidong
2007-03-26 16:51                       ` Drew Adams
2007-03-26 17:49                         ` Chong Yidong
2007-03-28  4:56                           ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-28 16:10                             ` next-error-highlight = t - highlighting doesn't stayuntilyoumoveto " Drew Adams
2007-03-28 18:52                               ` Chong Yidong
2007-03-29 15:33                               ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-28 18:36                             ` next-error-highlight = t - highlighting doesn't stay untilyoumoveto " Chong Yidong
2007-03-26 23:13             ` next-error-highlight = t - highlighting doesn't stay until youmoveto " Richard Stallman

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