[m-dev.] preferences for error contexts

Peter Ross pdross at gmail.com
Fri May 15 16:43:45 AEST 2009


On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Ralph Becket <rafe at csse.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> Paul Bone, Friday, 15 May 2009:
>>
>> Off topic: I should actually bother to learn how to feed make output into an
>> editor so it can take me to the errors.  I'd prefer not to polute my source
>> file with errors even though they can be found and removed easily.
>>
>> Eventually I'll set this up with Emacs once I (start and) finish my
>> mercury-mode for emacs.
>
> I just split my editing window and open the .err file (I have a
> shortcut set up to do this automatically).  Vim keeps the .err
> view up-to-date across recompiles.

I believe the vast majority of people using Mercury use vim style
error handling, but there are some people which don't.

So it looks like an option.

I vote for the default to be the new style.

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