From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Grant Edwards Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: compile buffer: hide/collapse displayed file paths? Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 13:55:30 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1372686970 4342 80.91.229.3 (1 Jul 2013 13:56:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 13:56:10 +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 15:56:07 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 1UteaK-0006jU-At for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 15:56:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43900 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UteaK-0001vv-24 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 09:56:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39365) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Utea7-0001ub-IP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 09:55:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Utea4-0005l0-DO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 09:55:51 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:36807) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Utea4-0005kr-5r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 09:55:48 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Utea3-0006V0-61 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 15:55:47 +0200 Original-Received: from dsl.comtrol.com ([64.122.56.22]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 15:55:47 +0200 Original-Received: from grant.b.edwards by dsl.comtrol.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 15:55:47 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl.comtrol.com User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:91890 Archived-At: 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. > 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. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Catsup and Mustard all at over the place! It's the gmail.com Human Hamburger!