On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:23 AM, Lex Trotman <elextr@gmail.com> wrote:

On 28 April 2011 01:58, Stephan Beal <sgbeal@googlemail.com> 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 :).