[m-dev.] preferences for error contexts

[Julien Fischer]

On Fri, 15 May 2009, Ralph Becket wrote:

> Peter Wang, Friday, 15 May 2009:
>> Currently this change would only kick in when the context is "too long".
>> However, one unexpected benefit is that in vim the :cn, :cp commands will
>> skip directly from one error to the next without going through the
>> intermediate lines, so maybe the new format should be used even for short
>> contexts?  On the other hand, the existing format is probably more readable
>> when the context is short.
>
> I'd have no objection to using your new scheme exclusively.

In the short term I suspect Peter may object to doing that, he'd need
to update all the .err_exp files in the test suite.

I have no objections to using the new scheme where the context is "too
long".

Julien.
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