Re: Compile issues

[Kim F. Storm]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

Agree 100%.  This is just sooooooo annoying.  Pls. fix it QUICKLY!!!

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Kim F. Storm  http://www.cua.dk