Re: Compile issues

[Miles Bader]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 09:30:13PM +0200, Daniel Pfeiffer wrote:
> Dave Love <address@hidden> skribis:
> > > We are currently thinking about various remedies for this.  In the
> > > mean time start with M-x first-error.
> > 
> > I'm surprised it was installed if the normal user interface doesn't
> > work.
> 
> "Doesn't work" is an exaggeration.  Personally I tend to scroll around and
> click with the mouse.  But I had extensively tested the keyboard commands,
> the way I thought they'd be used.  For this I mostly used the new feature
> of being able to save a compilation buffer.  When visiting such a file, I
> would of course always be on the first line, so I never noticed.  And my
> changes had been published for several months without any of the several
> users noticing This.

It sounds like it was inadvertent, but none-the-less,
compile-followed-by-next-error is (in my experience) an overwhelmingly common
method of using the compile functions, and it obviously wouldn't be
acceptable for that not to work in the next real release of emacs.

-Miles
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