`compilation-message-face' is a new, internal variable that hard-codes underlining on complete lines in compilation buffers. This is ridiculous - it gives users no control over the appearance of such lines (except by fiddling with an internal variable). It should be a face or a user option, so users can customize it. And the default value should be the default face - that is, there should be no special appearance, by default.
As it stands now, the only way I could find to turn off this horrible underlining is to set this internal variable to nil. This isn't even documented, AFAIK. This ugliness is intrusive and obstructs readability. The only underlining that would make sense in this context would be to use `underline' as the `mouse-face' (not the `face') property. In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2006-03-20 on W2ONE X server distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600 configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --cflags -Id:/g/include' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: ENU locale-coding-system: cp1252 default-enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Help Minor modes in effect: encoded-kbd-mode: t tooltip-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t utf-translate-cjk-mode: t line-number-mode: t view-mode: t Recent input: <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> C-h v d e f a u l t - f r a m e - a l i s t <return> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu> <report-emacs-bug> Recent messages: (C:\Emacs-22-2006-03-20\bin\emacs.exe -q --no-site-file --debug-init C:\drews-lisp-20) Loading encoded-kb...done For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p. Loading dired... Loading regexp-opt...done Loading dired...done Loading help-fns...done Loading pp...done Type C-x 1 to remove help window. Loading emacsbug...done _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug
