Re: Compile issues

[Stefan Monnier]

>     Since it's a module compiler, I guess it's pretty much the same as an
>     inferior SML REPL, but it's along time since I used one.  I assumed
>     that sort of thing would be generally familiar.
> Apparently not.  We seem to need a description.

Indeed, it's not.  Surprisingly so.  I remember when working on the
sml-mode, nobody understood what were my problems (and I didn't know about
tex-mode back then).

> The Emacs Lisp byte compiler also outputs successive compilations'
> errors into a single buffer.

Indeed, and many more packages either do it or would want to do it.

> I think it may need some special handling now.

Yes, tho it shouldn't be so special since tex-mode, erlang-mode, sml-mode,
and many more have the same need.  Scheme-mode, and lisp-mode could as well,
actually.  Basically any foo-mode that provides a foo-send-region or
foo-send-file to some inferior-foo-mode process.

> The ideal special handling would be this: for each file, consider only its
> most recent compilation.  Is that feasible?

Of course: I'm working on it.


        Stefan