Re: compilation-highlight-duration

[Tak Ota]

Sat, 01 May 2004 13:51:05 -0400: Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:

>     New compile.el is very nice and I particularly like the highlight
>     feature.  However, the hard coded duration of 0.5 second could be too
>     short or too long depending on the clock speed of the users' brain.
> 
> What exactly is that .5 second delay used for?  The code doesn't
> have many comments and I am not sure what job it is doing.

When `next-error' and `next-error-no-select' are executed the subject
line is highlighted momentarily for 0.5 seconds.  The grep mode uses
`next-error-no-select' and this momentary highlighting plays important
role to inform a user where the match exists.  The doc string of
`next-error-no-select' briefly touches upon the highlighting.

-Tak