":cbottom" seems more adaptive than auto scroll It can be much easier for me if ":cbottom" could be added.
>From my iPhone 发自我的 iPhone > 在 2016年6月9日，03:31，Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]> 写道： > > > skywind3000 wrote: > >> It may be distracting the grep workflow. But how about building jobs ? It is >> completely different from grep: >> 1. the output of building jobs contains not only error location, but also >> building progress (which file is being compiled now). >> 2. The most important output for a building job is the last 1 or 3 lines, >> which indicate the building result: success or failed . >> 3. the output of building jobs contains warnings too, which I can simply >> ignore . >> >> So, people always care about the building result at first, if building >> job succeeded, there is no need to rewind >> the output text to the head. That's the main difference from grep to >> build, especially async build. >> >> People care about building progress too, they just need to read the >> latest output of gnumake, and get known >> how many files are there to be compiled. In this circumstance, there >> is also no need to rewind the quickfix window. >> >> Getting the job output autoscroll is a basic feature for many editors, >> just like: >> - Gedit's output window has autoscroll feature. >> - EditPlus/UltraEdit/NotePad++'s output window has autoscroll feature. >> - Eclipse/Visual Studio's output window has autoscroll feature. >> ................. >> >> It is better to provide user an option to get quickfix autoscroll >> rather than force them using quickfix as an old >> synchronizing location and force them treating the complex building >> jobs as a simply grep . > > If you are added lines to the quickfix list one by one, it's not too > difficult to also have a command to scroll the quickfix window. > > How about adding the ":cbottom" command: if the quickfix window is > visible it will scroll to make the last line displayed. > > A separate command also allows for some optimizations, e.g. only scroll > when an error was detected. > > -- > hundred-and-one symptoms of being an internet addict: > 72. Somebody at IRC just mentioned a way to obtain full motion video without > a PC using a wireless protocol called NTSC, you wonder how you never > heard about it > > /// Bram Moolenaar -- [email protected] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ > /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ > \\\ an exciting new programming language -- http://www.Zimbu.org /// > \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org /// -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
