From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert J. Chassell" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Possible bug Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 12:33:59 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: Reply-To: bob@rattlesnake.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1167914110 8433 80.91.229.12 (4 Jan 2007 12:35:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 12:35:10 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 04 13:35:05 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H2Ro4-0002nN-Rh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 13:34:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H2Ro4-0000mE-2H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 07:34:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H2RnK-0000E4-74 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 07:34:06 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H2RnH-0000At-9F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 07:34:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H2RnG-0000AU-MZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 07:34:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [69.205.32.54] (helo=rattlesnake.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1H2RnG-0004qT-6M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 07:34:02 -0500 Original-Received: by rattlesnake.com via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.115) Thu, 4 Jan 2007 12:33:59 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from Richard Stallman on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 21:32:14 -0500) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:64746 Archived-At: < The variable compilation-scroll-output controls whether Emacs tracks < the tail of the messages or not. $ emacs -Q #using snapshot of late Sep 2006, sorry (set-variable (quote compilation-window-height) 111 nil) (compile "seq 222" nil) And it still tracks the bottom, even though compilation-scroll-output is nil, as default. Using Today's GNU Emacs CVS snapshot, Thu, 2007 Jan 4 11:19 UTC GNU Emacs 22.0.92.14 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.8.20) started with /usr/local/src/emacs/src/emacs -Q -D \ --eval '(setq-default mode-line-buffer-identification (quote (#("%14b" 0 4 (face (:weight normal))))))' \ -fn "-Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--20-200-75-75-C-100-ISO8859-1" in a compile with (setq compilation-scroll-output nil) point stays at the top of the *compilation* buffer window; and in a compile with (setq compilation-scroll-output t) point tracks the bottom. This is what is supposed to happen and no change is needed for the current CVS Emacs. (set-variable 'compilation-window-height 111 nil) sets compilation-scroll-output to a non-nil value, so we should expect point to track the bottom. As describe-function says (set-variable VARIABLE VALUE &optional MAKE-LOCAL) Set VARIABLE to VALUE. VALUE is a Lisp object. -- Robert J. Chassell GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 bob@rattlesnake.com bob@gnu.org http://www.rattlesnake.com http://www.teak.cc