[ESS] Error highlighting in iESS

[Sebastien Vauban]

Vitalie Spinu wrote:
> Sebastien Vauban on Fri, 22 Aug 2014 23:51:48 +0200 wrote:
>>
>> - the clickable links (for error navigation) outstanding in different
>>   colors (such as the results of a Grep, with the `compilation-info' +
>>   `compilation-line-number' faces); see
>>   http://screencast.com/t/0lXAPhY72.
>
> That's compilation-info and only for your theme. The face
> compilation-error is commonly red (pretty sure for your theme as
> well).
>
>> https://github.com/emacs-ess/ESS/wiki/img/errors.png
>
>> I find that very hard to parse (understand: read),
>
> You can imagine all of the so rounding text red. It should surely help
> with "parsing" ;-)

That's a question of habit. For me, as I've shown you with Zsh [1]:

- red is for error messages, and

- black is for common messages (or data) -- that is, correct results.

Though, I won't try to convince you. This would be a sterile discussion,
as it's purely a question of taste -- and we don't discuss taste ;-)

However, in the Emacs philosophy (where everything is customizable), I'd
find it adequate to be able to customize variables / faces / overlays or
whatever to get what I'd like. And the opposite for you: you should be
able to (not) customize and get what you expect (the default, for
example).

Regarding the links, they still would be clearly visible, if (customized
to be) underlined.

IMO we should be both able to customize the layout to match our desires,
shouldn't we?

Best regards,
  Seb

[1] http://screencast.com/t/eteXGMDvYajm

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Sebastien Vauban