Re: [21.1.90]: point put at point-min in *compilation*

[David Kastrup]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     > I would guess that a default of t for compilation-scroll-output would be
>     > better that the current default of nil, but YMMV.  When I'm compiling, I
>     > generally want to see progress, so I generally want Emacs to scroll the
>     > window for me.
>
>     Agreed,
>
> I disagree.  I find that I can't read the output of compilation if it
> scrolls.  Compilers are too fast these days!  Now, if we could slow them
> down, maybe it would be ok to scroll the output.  Any ideas?

It is frequently said that GCC is doing a good job at slowing down
compilation.  I also think that at least on some platforms
process-adaptive-read-buffering has some helpful effects (it did for
tramp until tramp put in some special code temporarily nilling it).

And people say that Emacs redisplay is also getting increasingly more
helpful here.

-- 
David Kastrup