How to highlight source in Emacs compilation-mode when compilation error occurs

Question

I read the documentation about compilation-mode but I didn't find any technique to hightlight source code where a compilation error occurs.

For example change the background color of the source code that produces the compilation error (like the red underline in Eclipse or Netbeans). And also a way to read the error message somewhere.

Answer 1

Normally, compilation mode will highlight the error message in the compiler output and you can use that to jump to the code. If you want your code syntax checked/highlighted you might want to look at flymake, which is supposed to be able to do exactly that.