Xref: utzoo comp.emacs:10163 gnu.emacs.help:1240 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!barmar From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) Newsgroups: comp.emacs,gnu.emacs.help Subject: Re: jump to compiler error line in editor [GNU Emacs' compile mode ad] Message-ID: <1991Feb22.183132.28815@Think.COM> Date: 22 Feb 91 18:31:32 GMT References: Sender: news@Think.COM Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA Lines: 16 In article rmf@cs.columbia.edu (Robert M. Fuhrer) writes: >Well, since we're on the subject, the IBM RS/6000 XLC C compiler generates >pretty funny looking error messages. The really unfortunate part is that >where compilation-error-regexp is expected to parse a file name and line >number, the XLC compiler's messages don't include the file name. Does anyone >have a solution? I've really gotten used to this feature, and would hate to >see it go... If the compiler's messages don't include the file name, how do *humans* figure out which file the message refers to? If humans can't do it, then we'd be hard pressed to teach a computer to do it. -- Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp. barmar@think.com {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com