taylor@THINK.COM (David Taylor) (01/13/90)
In GNU Emacs 18.49.18 of Wed Oct 28 1987 on odin.think.com (berkeley-unix), I discovered that compilation-error-regexp in compile.el contains, in part, \\([0-9]+.*of *[^ \n]+\\) The `of' matches both the word `of' anywhere and also as the last two characters of a word. It seems like it should only be matching the word `of' immediately after a number... As in something like: line 27 of fubar.c Unfortunately, it also matches `of' in things like: ../lib/file_descriptor.c(167): illegal lhs of assignment operator ../lib/file_descriptor.c(167): warning: illegal combination of pointer and integer, op = from lint. Is there anything wrong with changing it to instead be something like: \\([0-9]+[ \t]+of *[^ \n]+\\) That is, to require that there be white space and only white space between the number and the `of' in order for it to match? Anyway, the original caused compilation-parse-errors to die with a syntax error when trying to parse lint output and the new version seems to work fine. What program generates error/warning messages that the original pattern above is supposed to match? David