Rather than showing compiler errors in a different window to your editor, BSD has long been able to annotate code! https://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5280#comment-90779
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I'm experimenting with imitating window UI elements when showing code snippets on my website.
What do you think? Do the familiar dots of the title bar help, or is it just confusing decoration?
First image is the current style, the second image has the window UI.
It is *really* hard to find a good screenshot for a CLI tool when users are on a mobile browser.
This is the best I've come up with so far. I'm showing the terminal GUI to show where you'd use the tool.
I'm also trying several standalone screenshots to make it more comprehensible.
I'm experimenting with diagnostics formatting.
* I've added a left margin, showing both the file name and line numbers
* I'm showing one line of context above/below the offending line.
* I'm using grey for comments.
What do you think? Is there anything you'd change?





