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From: rgb@roadnet.com (Rudy Bonefas   )
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: CC, emacs and the 3 bears
Message-ID: <s7XH41w163w@roadnet.com>
Date: 13 Jun 91 20:16:51 GMT
Organization: Roadnet Technologies, Inc.
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Colin, look in compile.el, theres a regular expression that the compile 
command uses to parse errors.