[MLton-user] effectively tracking MLton error locations with emacs

Ian Zimmerman itz@buug.org
01 Nov 2004 07:43:51 -0800


Stephen> Maybe lots of people know this, but it was new to me.

Stephen> An annoying problem that I have when using emacs functions to
Stephen> automatically put the cursor at an error is that when visiting
Stephen> multiple errors, once I edit the file, subsequent error
Stephen> locations are off slightly (or even a lot) due to the edits.  I
Stephen> have to manually look around to match up the error message text
Stephen> with the code.

This used to work.  I'll have to look at the Lisp in Emacs (I use GNU Emacs)
to see if things changed and why.

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