Re: Compilation Message Presentation

[Lennart Borgman]

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 4:16 AM, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> 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.


Any interest in installing my additions to flymake before the freeze?