Re: compilation-error-regexp-alist syntax problems

[Stefan Monnier]

> Ah hah!  That's the problem.  It's not in the local version.
> Next question, how do I get the local version to include it?

Looking at `compile-internal', it seems you'll have to do
things differently.
The simplest is:

   (require 'compile)
   (add-to-list 'compilation-error-regexp-alist
                '("\\[javac\\] *\\(/[^:]+\\):\\([^:]*\\):" 1 2))

and if you don't want to have to preload compile.el from your .emacs file
(I personally hate it when I have to do that), you'l have to use something
like eval-after-load (a bit untidy) or to setq error-regexp-alist (really
ugly and likely to break in a future version of compile.el).

Hmm... there's room for improvement in compile.el.


        Stefan