Use pager and scroll to top in hot mode

[lydell]

Use pager and scroll to top in hot mode

[nidico]

Thanks for the prompt reply!

I’ve tried Terminal and iTerm2 on macOS, and they “remember” my scroll position.

Very interesting! Both foot on Debian Linux and urxvt don't remember the scroll position, maybe they could be configured differently. Interestingly, Konsole does remember the scroll position; gnome-terminal and xfce4-terminal don't.

I'll investigate the terminal scroll behavior further at another time!

As I mention in https://lydell.github.io/elm-watch/what-elm-watch-is/#ideas-for-the-future, I have an idea to make errors more “interactive” in the future.

Cool. I'd envision being able to navigate through the errors somehow and be able to send a custom command to an external editor in order to make it jump to the error position...

You might also be interested in that the next version of elm-watch (currently available as npm install elm-watch@beta) you can opt in to an error overlay in the browser, which does start scrolled to the top. Still not exactly what you’re asking for, but anyway.

Yeah, I read that and I'm curious to try it out, but haven't done so yet (despite using @beta already). In the end I'm quite a bit of a terminal guy, but having the errors in the browser can still be useful!

By the way, as we're in a bug tracker which focuses on improvements of certain aspects, I didn't have the chance to say that elm-watch is one awesome tool (I'd say "the best web dev support tool" I encountered so far)! Thank you very much for your work!!

[lydell]

Hi!

Which terminal on which OS do you use?

I’ve tried Terminal and iTerm2 on macOS, and they “remember” my scroll position. So if I scroll to the top of the errors once and then cause a recompilation, it stays at the top (until “next time” so one has to scroll to the top every now and then). You won’t see the “x errors found” of course, but it’s something.

As I mention in https://lydell.github.io/elm-watch/what-elm-watch-is/#ideas-for-the-future, I have an idea to make errors more “interactive” in the future. I’ll keep this in mind then! However, I don’t know when I’ll work on it.

You might also be interested in that the next version of elm-watch (currently available as npm install elm-watch@beta) you can opt in to an error overlay in the browser, which does start scrolled to the top. Still not exactly what you’re asking for, but anyway.

[lydell]

I'd envision being able to navigate through the errors somehow and be able to send a custom command to an external editor in order to make it jump to the error position

That sounds amazing! 👍