From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 29d1c72: Introduce new value t for compilation-context-lines to eliminate scrolling Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 16:07:55 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20190825102322.19558.22771@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20190825102323.5080620CD5@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20190825190637.GE4724@ACM> <838srhghoc.fsf@gnu.org> <20190827193652.GA20676@ACM> <83y2zecrt1.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="260971"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Alan Mackenzie , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 27 22:08:22 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1i2hlN-0015n3-Uu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Aug 2019 22:08:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57334 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i2hlK-0000dm-T3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Aug 2019 16:08:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46869) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i2hlB-0000bZ-Lk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Aug 2019 16:08:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i2hlA-00035x-OU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Aug 2019 16:08:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.25.50]:26946) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i2hl8-000323-7s; Tue, 27 Aug 2019 16:08:06 -0400 Original-Received: from pmg2.iro.umontreal.ca (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by pmg2.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id C093C811E4; Tue, 27 Aug 2019 16:08:04 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (unknown [172.31.2.1]) by pmg2.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 206D8810B2; Tue, 27 Aug 2019 16:07:59 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=iro.umontreal.ca; s=mail; t=1566936479; bh=VYnKa7m03sHw1VFc+pjCJivghrHH40trjptjpOae+sw=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=DxrH2D8Poe6N9Wy7hgc+BlNp+aTWfMteAe/BUn2YRLr1hOh1pQdLy/kJpCik/Jd+d X16jQZOfB0nHXreW4R90LPBp32xLYVv1td8jI//1PMpvpXtdLV3zWrllEV5B/QOWvW C8G6Oiy66gUcu4GNPNhdojG7gQ03x8tb34gVY07KvU6LuWcs7oTgA9dCk/N99ivuYK RW0aonPMhDep2YZbVfPihjE+k7CZjvGErS9e5OS2tU02sDgNH5wfKoV5QOLJkbYsWH RW+cwNof2ksPzi575GOjeYJ5dvJxdR3ZFVpHUKDQE+BUbnyYl99E0IpzMG6GnLc/Dk V/4AjsqRfnEEw== Original-Received: from pastel (unknown [45.72.142.24]) by mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D93D012053C; Tue, 27 Aug 2019 16:07:58 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <83y2zecrt1.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 27 Aug 2019 22:49:14 +0300") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 132.204.25.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:239628 Archived-At: >> +(defvar compilation-dummy-string ">" >> + "A string which is only a placeholder for compilation-margin-string. >> +It's actual value is never used, but must be one character long.") > ^^^^ > "Its". > > Btw, it is customary to use just " " for such purposes. Funnily enough I thought you were talking not about the ">" string but about the "It[']s" so I was surprised you said " " instead of "" since indeed you could write it as just: Actual value is never used, but must be one character long. and I was wondering why you'd want to use a leading space in that sentence ;-O Stefan