PR# 4065 Please scroll the Output pane to the top when showing compiler errors

Problem Report Summary
Submitter: peter_gummer
Category: EiffelStudio
Priority: Medium
Date: 2004/09/23
Class: Feature Request
Severity: Non-critical
Number: 4065
Release: 5.5.1012
Confidential: No
Status: Open
Responsible:
Environment: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1
Synopsis: Please scroll the Output pane to the top when showing compiler errors

Description
When I get compiler errors, the description shown in the Output pane is scrolled so that the end of the error message is visible.

This is NEVER what I want to read initially.

Almost always, the first information that I want is (in this order):
1. The class containing the errors.
2. The feature in that class containing the first error.
3. The line containing the first error.
4. The short description of the first error (often I don't even need this, because I can see what's wrong just by reading the code).

This information is at the top. Please scroll to the top initially, so that I don't have to do this myself every time.

By the way, given that the first three points are often sufficient to see what is wrong, it would be great if they appeared first, before the error code, error and "what to do". And -- I'm really pushing my luck here -- if there were a keyboard shortcut that took me immediately to the first error, then that would be even better ... I'd probably have to read fewer than 50% of the error messages at all. (Visual Studio, for example, uses F8 and Shift+F8 to skip forward and back from error to error. This is very efficient.)
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From:peter_gummer    Date:2004/09/23    Download