Anmoter set of comments

[Bernd Gehrmann]

On Wed, 20 Oct 1999 Massimo Morin wrote:
>Hi guys 
>   here are other comments :)
>I haven't seen any response to my previous email.... anyone took a
>look at it??

Sure :-) 

>o  When compiling it could be a good idea to avoid to set the "view"
>always to be the last message
>   printed in the "messages" pane window.
>   In emacs, by deafult it is the last message printed, but if you
>   move the scroolbar, or if you click on the window it will stop
>   scrolling. For activating the scrolling again you put the mouse to
>   the last line printed (or end buffer on emacs).
>   I found this very handy and usefull...

Ah, that's it! I have always been astonished that Emacs is doing 
exactly the right and intuitive thing. Now that you say it I
realize how it decides what to do :-)

>o  Is it possible to create different target in the makefile??? How
>   can we edit the makefile?

You can edit the part of the Makefile.am outside KDevelop's special
markers. Arbitrary targets are possible. Furthermore, you can override
variables simply by reassigning them. Only the last assignment
is used by make.

>   It could be a good idea to do all this stuff when we insert the
>   data into the window rather than parsing it when the data is fully
>   inserted (here you can add all your stuff for
>   colorization/fontification). 

I've done that for the HEAD branch, not only for the compiler output,
but also for grep.

Bernd.