Re: Overlay arrow in *compilation* and *grep* buffers

[Kim F. Storm]

"Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:

>   =>wd.c:5: warning: implicit declaration of function `bar'

> Notice the overlay arrow that covered part of the file name: this is a
> bug, IMHO.  If we want to have an arrow pointing out the current line,
> we should indent the buffer text to the right as many columns as the
> arrow string takes.

On text terminals, the overlay-arrow is just that --- an overlay arrow.
So it is not a bug ...

> Also, the arrow feature is not customizable.  What about users who
> will dislike it and would wish to turn it off?

What about

 (put 'next-error-overlay-arrow-position 'overlay-arrow-string "")