[ANN] fancy-compilation (available on MELPA)
reddit / emacs

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ideasman_42 · 2022-07-17 22:59



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ispinfx · 2022-07-18 01:30

What's the font in the screenshot?

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ideasman_42 · 2022-07-18 01:33

The font is [agave](https://github.com/blobject/agave), the theme is
[inkpot](https://melpa.org/#/inkpot-theme).

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ispinfx · 2022-07-18 01:49

Thanks!

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FluentFelicity · 2022-07-18 05:05

Hmm, for some reason I get this error when using `M-x compile`:

```
comp--native-compile: Native elisp load failed: "file does not
exists", "/home/krisbalintona/.emacs.d/eln-cache/29.0.50-86311442/subr
--
trampoline-7075742d746578742d70726f7065727479_put_text_property_0.eln"
```

Something with the eln-cache? Happens with `emacs -Q` as well. If it
helps, `emacs-version` returns

```
GNU Emacs 29.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.34,
cairo version 1.17.6) of 2022-06-29
```

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ideasman_42 · 2022-07-18 09:12

I had this error once, then the error went away, not sure whats going
on.

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github-alphapapa · 2022-07-18 14:48

This looks very cool.  Have you considered upstreaming some of the
features?  e.g. I use this code that I got from Artur Malabarba's blog
to support terminal color codes in the output, and it would be nice if
Emacs did this by default:

    (use-package compile
      :config
      (progn
        ;; Apply ANSI terminal color escape codes.
<http://endlessparentheses.com/ansi-colors-in-the-compilation-buffer-
output.html>
        (require 'ansi-color)
        (defun endless/colorize-compilation ()
          "Colorize from `compilation-filter-start' to `point'."
          (let ((inhibit-read-only t))
            (ansi-color-apply-on-region compilation-filter-start
(point))))
        (add-hook 'compilation-filter-hook #'endless/colorize-
compilation))

      (setf compilation-save-buffers-predicate
            ;; NOTE: For some reason setting this in :custom doesn't
seem to work.
            ;; HACK: The docstring says that `compilation-directory'
can't "generally" be used,
            ;; apparently because it's only set *after* `compile'
calls `save-some-buffers'.  If that
            ;; line of code wre moved up one line, it would solve the
problem (probably without causing
            ;; any others).  Anyway, using `default-directory' when
`compilation-directory' isn't set
            ;; should work.
            (lambda ()
              (when (buffer-file-name)
                (string-prefix-p (or compilation-directory default-
directory)
                                 (file-truename (buffer-file-
name)))))))

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chrinto · 2022-07-18 14:59

Consider a request to do a merge to compilation-mode, this is great
features

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ideasman_42 · 2022-07-19 00:00

I've fixed the error, technically it's a bug in native-compilation
AFAICS, but working around the problem wasn't such an issue.

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FluentFelicity · 2022-07-19 00:04

Great! Seems to work for me now. Glad you were able to find a
workaround :)

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ideasman_42 · 2022-07-19 00:05

@github-alphapapa regarding up-streaming, yes - although at the moment
I don't have the energy to argue for some of the more opinionated
decisions made by this package. At the very least making them options
for built-in compilation could work.

There is some wrinkles that would need to be solved before pushing
this up-stream too, the main one is to properly support `compilation-
max-output-line-length`, which I'm not sure how to support with ANSI
escape sequences that re-write text onto the same line (causing
`[...]` to show on lines that are not long "visually" at least). My
package just sets this to nil since I don't think it's a core feature
of compilation, but for up-streaming I think it would need to be
resolved.

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ideasman_42 · 2022-07-19 00:06

Not against it, see reply to @github-alphapapa.