Re: Problems with compile-mode

[Oscar Fuentes]

address@hidden (Daniel Pfeiffer) writes:

> Oscar Fuentes <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> Well, after trimming .emacs I found the culprit:
>> 
>> (custom-set-variables
>>  '(compilation-window-height 8))
>> 
>> I've tried other values (3, 15, 30) and the bug was still there.
>> 
>> Perhaps it is useful to note that always the text
>> 
>> cd t:/sec/exp/       # -*-compilation-*-
>> Entering directory `t:/sec/exp/'
>> icl p.cpp
>> 
>> Compilation exited abnormally with code 2 at Mon May 10 17:53:55
>> 
>> appears starting on the top line of the window, so the compiler error
>> messages remains invisible until you scroll up.
>
> I have no idea what select-window does, but protecting it with save-excursion
> does the trick.  I didn't change the calling function, so either something
> else changed, or the bug was always there.

Now, setting compilation-scroll-output to nil has no effect. The
window always scrolls as text is added to the compilation buffer.

-- 
Oscar