[Geany-devel] multiple error message slowness - Re: Update to build support

Frank Lanitz frank at xxxxx
Wed Jan 28 13:15:41 UTC 2009


On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:50:03 +0100
Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:03:02 +1100, Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> >2009/1/27 Nick Treleaven <nick.treleaven at btinternet.com>
> >
> >> On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:52:18 +0100
> >> Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:
> >>
> >> Well, *if* this is the cause, I think it would be best to limit the
> >> errors. Error indicators are useful up to a point, but who is really
> >> going to look at each error for >50, >100, >200 errors? If there are
> >> a lot, they're likely caused by the same problem.
> >>
> >
> >I agree with Nick, I always click on the error to go to the offending
> >source line, but after fixing the first few errors I tend to
> >re-compile to see if I actually fixed them and how many of the rest
> >are consequential errors.  So limiting how many are highlighted (or
> >even how many are displayed if the treeview is the problem) may be a
> >solution for slow machines and speeding up the turnaround fits well
> >with my workflow.
> 
> Hmm ok, why not. You are both right, that usually fixing the first few
> errors solves the other 100 errors as well :). And if not, then there
> is probably a much bigger problem in the used code, haha.

Such an option should be optional with default value 0 for no limit IMHO. 

Cheers, 
Frank
-- 
Frank Lanitz <frank at frank.uvena.de>
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