Re: conflicting uses of next-error-function

[Vitalie Spinu]

 >>> Stefan Monnier on Wed, 29 Apr 2015 09:23:13 -0400 wrote:

 >> Dmitry took that out because he thinks that it interferes too much with
 >> compilation-mode.  Maybe he's right but let me note that M-x rgrep also
 >> uses next-error/prev-error and similarly interferes with
 >> compilation-mode.

 > Indeed, I've occasionally been annoyed by conflicting uses of
 > next-error-last-buffer/next-error-function.  And in both directions:

Shouldn't then the first invocation of next-error push into
xref--marker-ring (for M-.) in case it took you to a wrong place?

 > For that, the next-error framework needs to make it possible for the
 > user to control which package gets to really use next-error and when.
 
How about using the free M-0 prefix in next-error to prompt for the
compilation buffer on which to operate?


   Vitalie