Re: URIs in place of source filenames in error messages?

[Michael(tm) Smith]

Hi Karl,

> @2008-01-18 18:56 -0600:
> Just FYI, in practice, what I recall past versions of Emacs (that is,
> next-error) doing is, more or less, looking for /^(.*):[0-9]: / and then
> the filename is \1, including colons.  (What Emacs actually did is way
> more complicated than that, but that was the idea.)

Ah, OK -- I should have realized that would be the case (rather
than just doing simple splitting at colons).

> Of course this loses if the :[0-9]:  pattern happens to match
> elsewhere in the error message, but in reality ... (and what
> emacs 22 does is something different again, as I understand it).

OK, I guess I ought to take some time to test Emacs (and Vim and
some other apps that have built-in support for parsing GNU-style
error messages) and see what they actually do if I feed them a URI
for the source-file-name part). And/or look at the code to see
what regexp or other mechanism they use to parse the error messages.

> I'll forward your message to rms and go from there.

Thanks -- I appreciate it

  --Mike

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