Re: Compilation Message Presentation

[Stefan Monnier]

> I mean in a more elaborate way, by highlighting all messages at the
> same tim but in different colors (green, yellow, orange, red, etc.)
> either with underlining overlays or using the fringe.  Most other IDEs
> does this and I find its presentation a bit more grasping than Emacs
> default 1-second flashing.

Maybe you want to look at flymake.

> Another question: Why isn't font-locking cached if I reopen a file
> that hasn't been modified since last time I opened with font-locking?
> If I would like to implement such a feature could we extract the font-
> locking-attributes from a file and save it separately?

It's called fast-lock, and of course it's slow.
If on-the-fly font-locking is slow, it's usually a bug.


        Stefan