Hi Stefan,

On 2013-01-31 23:14 +0800, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> So maybe the best approach is to extend compile.el such that it can be
> told to do its job without displaying the compilation buffer.  If you do
> that, try to take into account that this usage pattern could be useful
> in other contexts than ggtags.el, for example users might prefer to not
> see the compilation buffer and just be moved to the first error
> automatically, and have C-x ` output the error message in the echo area
> (maybe, accompanied by the number of errors left).

The attached two patches (against emacs-24) implement:

1. A new variable compilation-dont-display-buffer to prevent calling
   display-buffer.

2. Display a message when calling compilation-next-error like this:
   Error: 2/623

Thanks for comments.

Leo