Re: new style Emacs compile

[Stefan Monnier]

> Backwards compatibility compilation-error-regexp-alist for compile.el is
> desirable, but I don't think it is essential.  Not that many users
> customize it.  It would not be a disaster if they had to make a change.

I agree that the case where the user has changed the value is rather
unimportant, but I know of several unbundled elisp packages which change it
to support a particular related tool.  My sml-mode is one such example which
will be fixed pretty promptly, but there are many more.


        Stefan