Howdy folks,
As I'm always tinkering with my development workflow, I was wondering how you have your dev setups?
Recently I switched from vim to vscode, and now I usually have 1-2 code files opened in vertical split view and 1, recently 2 terminal windows on the bottom. First I just recompiled on save/finishing a snipped, now I switched to cargo watch. But it's a real hassle to scroll up to every error, fixing it, saving and having to scroll back down since my terminal doesn't scroll with new input if I scrolled up. The in-code error highlights are too short for me. Is there a way to suppress all the unnecessary output from the compiler, only showing the errors, maybe 1-3 lines per error?
What's your workflow? Would be great if some of you could share their workflow, arrangement of windows and so on. Apologizes for this long text.
Have a nice weekend and thanks in advance,
Anton
Is there a way to suppress all the unnecessary output from the compiler, only showing the errors, maybe 1-3 lines per error?
Yes, but it's not easily accessible. --error-format short uses 1 line per error, but the option is unstable.
I'm working almost entirely within Emacs, most of the time without a GUI (emacs -nw), deal with version control via magit, wrap some cargo calls via Makefiles, and therefore compile from within Emacs (M-x compile). During compilation all warnings and error messages are automatically gathered in a new split window, which can be searched (C-s) e.g. for errors, and you can jump directly to the source code (even if that file wasn't loaded before). I know it's kind of unusual workflow, but it works pretty well, e.g. rustfmt can be called within Emacs as well ...
My 2 cents 
That's a good hint, thanks, I'll try that. One other option that came to my mind was building customized output on top of the json output, might try that as well 
Thanks so far
Since you're coming from vim: Do you know about the quickfix list? If you're using rust.vim and set compiler=cargo, you can just call make check and have the error populate the qf list and jump through them the usual way.
Oh that's nice, didn't know that, thanks 