Re: [Babel] Error output buffer

[Dan Davison <dandavison7@gmail.com>]

Sébastien Vauban <wxhgmqzgwmuf-geNee64TY+gS+FvcfC7Uqw@public.gmane.org>
writes:

> Hi,
>
> A quick wished feature, if you agree on its usefulness.
>
> Currently, all error messages are concatenated to the same buffer, execution
> after execution, which makes it *difficult to distinguish between the new
> errors*, and the ones already seen previously.

Hi Seb,

I agree, that had been bothering me too. I had fixed it a week or so ago
in my local set up, and I've just pushed that to master. It wipes the
error buffer clean at the start of execution (on C-c C-c, and during
export).

Dan

>
> Different propositions:
>
> - delete the contents of the buffer before every code execution
>
> - add something visible after every execution, like a separator line or a ^L
>   character (new page, than can easily be displayed as a rule)
>
> - always show the last lines in a different color
>
> - in the same spirit, use two alternate colors for the messages (like in some
>   HTML tables, for odd/even rows)
>
> - add a timestamp with the date, before every code execution.
>
> This is not exhaustive, just some (funny for some of them) ideas I have in
> mind in order to make the messages more visible than they currently are.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Best regards,
>   Seb