Am Sun, 12 Jun 2011 03:01:33 +0200 schrieb Reinhard Kotucha: > > Editors set often \scrollmode or --scrollmode as default > > (texniccenter certainly, emacs as far as I know too). At my opinion > > this is pity. It makes compilation easier when the errors are > > temporary (e.g. due to outdated aux-files) but it leads also quite > > a lot people to ignore errors as long as a pdf is generated. > > Yes, but Emacs (actually AucTeX) reads the log file for you. If an > error occurs, you can jump to the place where it's detected and you > get a detailed error message. Emacs even provides more comprehensible > error messages than LaTeX itself. > > I never used TeXnicCenter myself but I've seen many people using it. > Sorry, but I have the impression that they are using it *because* they > don't want to see error messages.
I have never used TeXnicCenter either but as far as I know it flags the number of errors at the bottom and has like winedt and emacs some means to jump through all the errors. But I didn't critzise this error-jumping but scrollmode. For you and me it is simply a matter of taste and personal working habits. But for beginners it imho psychological wrong. As you said: quite a lot people don't want to see error messages - and if the editor allows them to ignore them they will happily do it. I see quite often variants of "until know I got my pdf so why should I have looked at the list of errors?". -- Ulrike Fischer
