Re: Error message not recognized in compilation buffer

[Pascal Quesseveur]

>"RC" == Richard Copley <rcopley@gmail.com> writes:

  RC> Have you already seen the explanation in the docstring for
  RC> "compilation-error-regexp-alist"? It might also be useful to look
  RC> at the existing regexps (compilation-error-regexp-alist-alist)
  RC> the sample file "etc/compilation.txt" in the Emacs distribution.

  Thank you. Since my post I ended up analyzing the regexps and I
managed to define one that works:

  ("\\([[:alnum:].]+\\)(\\([0-9].\\)) \\(?:Error\\|Warning\\): \\(?:[FEW][0-9]+ 
\\)"
    1 2 nil nil 1)

  RC> It turns out there's a note in the sample file that the predefined
  RC> regexp for borland is for "Borland C++, C++Builder".

  I didn't knew that.

  RC> An error specification matching your example might look something
  RC> like this:

  RC> ("^\\([a-zA-Z]?:?[^:() \t\n]+\\)(\\([0-9]+\\)) \
  RC> \\(?:Error\\|\\(Warning\\)\\|\\(Hint\\)\\):" 1 2 nil (3 . 4))

  I now undestand how TYPE is working. Thanks a lot.


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