From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: new compile command doesn't coalesce errors on the same line Date: 29 Mar 2004 00:00:39 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20040317215208.5b0cb3e2.occitan@esperanto.org> <20040317224726.GC12561@fencepost> <20040320074137.2ea2c886.occitan@esperanto.org> <20040321092224.039cd09b.occitan@esperanto.org> <20040323202359.1f75a72f.occitan@esperanto.org> <20040328233217.71d75077.occitan@esperanto.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1080511524 25155 80.91.224.253 (28 Mar 2004 22:05:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:05:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: miles@lsi.nec.co.jp, miles@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 29 00:05:15 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B7iP5-0007QA-00 for ; Mon, 29 Mar 2004 00:05:15 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B7iP4-00021R-00 for ; Mon, 29 Mar 2004 00:05:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B7iLd-0006zs-HR for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 17:01:41 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B7iLI-0006tA-Cl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 17:01:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B7iKm-0006pm-DR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 17:01:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B7iKm-0006pi-5P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 17:00:48 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1B7iKZ-0000rt-Ru; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 17:00:36 -0500 Original-To: Daniel Pfeiffer In-Reply-To: <20040328233217.71d75077.occitan@esperanto.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-Lines: 32 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:21035 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:21035 dapfy@t-online.de (Daniel Pfeiffer) writes: > Richard Stallman skribis: > > > > What if I then type C-x `? Will it got to the following error, > > > or will it move down until it finds an error I have not yet visited? > > > > That is exactly the distinction made by the compilation-skip-visited > > option. You can have one behaviour or the other. > > > > Now I understand. The doc string was not clear to me. > > > > I am now certain that setting compilation-skip-visited to t is NOT the > > right way to handle consecutive errors on one source line. It has > > other effects that I would not want. > > > > So compilation-skip-visited's default should remain nil, > > but we need another feature to recognize consecutive error messages > > on a single source line and disregard all but the first of them. > > > > Would you please implement that feature? There could be an > > option to disable it. > > Sure, but I'm still not clear on what contiguous should mean. What if there > are ten contiguous mentions of a location, but the *compilation* window is > only five lines high? Make it larger temporarily. That's what happens to the minibuffer in similar cases. Of course I have no idea how to achieve that. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum