GNU bug report logs - #70974
next-error: allow looping back to the first error

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From: Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: next-error: allow looping back to the first error
Date: Wed, 15 May 2024 10:41:50 +0800

C-s runs the command isearch-forward
When we hit the bottom no worries, it will just print a
message and wrap back up to the top and keep searching.

C-x ` runs the command next-error.
But it doesn't loop around. Nope. Beep:
compilation-next-error: Moved past last error
We must manually place it back up at the top.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Cc: 70974 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#70974: next-error: allow looping back to the first error
Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 13:20:29 +0300

> From: Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
> Date: Wed, 15 May 2024 10:41:50 +0800
> 
> C-x ` runs the command next-error.
> But it doesn't loop around. Nope. Beep:
> compilation-next-error: Moved past last error
> We must manually place it back up at the top.

I believe this is a feature, since wrapping around in this case makes
no sense, at least generally.  Of course, any particular
next-error-function could wrap around if the major mode for which it
is written justifies that.

Message #11 received at 70974 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 70974 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#70974: next-error: allow looping back to the first error
Date: Fri, 17 May 2024 09:32:52 +0800

On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 01:20:29PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I believe this is a feature, since wrapping around in this case makes
> no sense, at least generally.
The same could be said for isearch-forward.
Perhaps there could be an option controlling it.

Message #14 received at 70974 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Rudolf Adamkovič <rudolf <at> adamkovic.org>
To: Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>, 70974 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#70974: next-error: allow looping back to the first error
Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 22:38:18 +0200

Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org> writes:

> Beep: compilation-next-error: Moved past last error

+1 As a long-term, and somewhat heavy, user of the Compilation mode
myself, I too find this behavior counterproductive.

Rudy
-- 
"Logic is a science of the necessary laws of thought, without which no
employment of the understanding and the reason takes place."
--- Immanuel Kant, 1785

Rudolf Adamkovič <rudolf <at> adamkovic.org> [he/him]
http://adamkovic.org

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