Re: hl-line-mode inside *compilation* buffer

[Michael Heerdegen]

Glen Stark <mail@glenstark.net> writes:

> Now I do next-error again.  In my emacs (maybe it's theme related?) I see 
> a little triangle in the left fringe of the *compile* window.   The 
> little triangle at the edge of the window moves to the next error, and my 
> cursor jumps to the next error, but the highlighted region of the 
> *compile* window is still the line that was highlighted when my cursor 
> was over there.  If I swap windows the highlighted region then updates to 
> show the current error, but I'd like that to happen without switching 
> windows all the time.

AFAICT hl-line is designed to only update highlighting in the
window-buffer of the selected window.

For the arrow, I think this is controlled by the options
`next-error-highlight' and `next-error-highlight-no-select'.  The
default values don't cause highlighting in the fringe.