Re: next-error use cases

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 20.05.2020 01:12, Juri Linkov wrote:

> > Some rough idea: pick some similar keybinding in flymake-supported buffers
> > ('C-c C-c'? wouldn't it be too presumptuous to take over?)... and make it,
>
> And bind it to next-error-select-buffer.
>
> > I don't know, echo the error text? Or (!) show the diagnostics buffer, for
> > which there's no default key binding still. And in the end, call
> > next-error-found.
>
> Indeed, using the diagnostics buffer is a good idea (even without showing it).

We could use the diagnostics in a similar fashion to compilation, xref, 
occur, etc, buffers to detect that the user definitely wants 
next-error-last-buffer changed.

And either set that variable when the user displays the diagnostics 
buffer, or when they use one of the "buttons" inside (but IME it's a 
very rare even, I never use them, unlike Compilation or Grep "buttons").

That would require showing it, however. But otherwise could enable a 
streamlined approach to all next-error-function enabled buffers, where 
the behavior of Flymake based ones doesn't much differ from others.

In all this, I'm most concerned about the keybinding: 'C-c C-c' would 
follow an existing example, but it's seems too valuable to take over in 
all programming major modes.

It calls comment-region in c-mode (and a few others), but that 
duplicates an existing binding.

In prolog-mode, ps-mode, sql-mode it invokes some unique commands, however.