Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Implementing TeX-previous-error

[Tassilo Horn]

Mosè Giordano <address@hidden> writes:

>> The long term idea is to provide the user a clickable error overview,
>> which is one of the features I miss most from other *TeX editors.
>> This is also the third item of our wishlist.  The new variable
>> `TeX-error-list' should suffice to create the overview, but I don't
>> know how technically do it, thus any suggestion will be welcome :-)
>
> I looked at Flycheck [1], they have a very nice error overview,
> similar to what I'd like to implement in AUCTeX, but it's based on
> tabulated list mode [2] which is shipped only with GNU Emacs >= 24.
> Do you know other tools allowing to create an error list, compatible
> with all supported Emacsen, in order not to reinvent the wheel?

No, not really.  But I wouldn't mind too much if you'd implement it
based on tabulated list mode if that seems valuable thus making it an
emacs24-only feature.  I mean, we shouldn't break compatibility in
existing features (at least not without good reasons), but for new stuff
I prefer to implement them in the most maintainable way, and that
excludes reinventing the wheel.

Bye,
Tassilo