On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:23 AM, Lex Trotman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 28 April 2011 01:58, Stephan Beal <[email protected]> wrote:For the > languages I use the compiler error does not indicate where on > the line and often thats not really where the error is, its just where > the compiler detected it, so you have to place the caret anyway. > the carret, sure, but as it is now i have to (A) click the error, (B) visually find the line, and (C) move my mouse some arbitrary distance (not a fixed/reliable pattern) and click on the line (and i often click one too high or low). It's quite distracting, actually. I think the current behavior is ok, you already have your hand on the mouse > ... > The _only_ reason i have my hand on the mouse is to double-click the error. If it weren't for that i'd be on the keyboard. > Of course the emacs behavior is because placing the cursor used to be > done by keyboard, not by mouse. > Does Geany have a keyboard shortcut for this? If so i'll use that (as long as the focus stays in, or is returned to, the editor). > Since you have been (mis)trained by emacs to keep your hands on the > keyboard ;-), why don't you bind next error/previous error to keycodes > and then you don't need to put your hand on the mouse at all. > Didn't know about them :/. i'll look them up. i will always be an xemacs users at heart, but geany has served me surprisingly well for several small C projects and all of my recent PHP/HTML/JS coding. emacs, in its long life, has never really learned to deal with indentation of multi-language files like HTML/PHP and HTML/JS (and even pure JS it can't indent worth a damn). Thanks for the feedback :). -- ----- stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/
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