Variable: next-error-message-highlight

next-error-message-highlight is a customizable variable defined in simple.el.gz.

Value

nil

Documentation

If non-nil, highlight the current error message in the next-error buffer.

If the value is keep, highlighting is permanent, so all visited error messages are highlighted; this helps to see what messages were visited.

This variable was added, or its default value changed, in Emacs 28.1.

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Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 28.1.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/simple.el.gz
(defcustom next-error-message-highlight nil
  "If non-nil, highlight the current error message in the `next-error' buffer.
If the value is `keep', highlighting is permanent, so all visited error
messages are highlighted; this helps to see what messages were visited."
  :type '(choice (const :tag "Highlight the current error" t)
                 (const :tag "Highlight all visited errors" keep)
                 (const :tag "No highlighting" nil))
  :group 'next-error
  :version "28.1")