> Below is small patch to compile.el. This patch add the line: > Compilation started at Mon Aug 01 17:09:03 > and highlight it in the same way as "Compilation finished". > > I add this because I have some very long compilations (e.g. build > Emacs on Cygwin) and this helps me keep track of it.
Good idea. I think it's better to use exactly the same format as used in the function `compilation-handle-exit', i.e. `mode-name' instead of `(capitalize name-of-mode)', and `(substring (current-time-string) 0 19)' instead of `format-time-string'. Also I see there is a difference in highlighting grep and compilation exit messages. In the grep output the mode name `Grep' is not highlighted, but the exit code is highlighted (highlighting is underlined below). Grep exited abnormally with code 2 at Tue Jul 19 15:42:32 ================= = In the compilation output the mode name is highlighted, but the exit code is not: Compilation exited abnormally with code 1 at Wed Jul 20 12:21:12 ============================= Shouldn't they be more uniform? -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel