(info "(check) Unit Testing in C") claims: The test failure messages thrown up by Check use the common idiom of 'filename:linenumber:message' used by 'gcc' and family to report problems in source code. With (X)Emacs, the output of Check allows one to quickly navigate to the location of the unit test that failed; presumably that also works in VI and IDEs. So IWBNI this were indeed the case OOTB, at least for Check's default CK_NORMAL print_mode verbosity level. Here are some more message examples from the Check manual: check_money.c:9:F:Core:test_money_create:0: Assertion 'money_amount (m)==5' failed: money_amount (m)==0, 5==5 check_money.c:5:E:Core:test_money_create:0: (after this point) Received signal 11 (Segmentation fault) ex_log_output.c:8:P:Core:test_pass: Test passed ex_log_output.c:14:F:Core:test_fail: Failure ex_log_output.c:18:E:Core:test_exit: (after this point) Early exit with return value 1 ex_log_output.c:26:P:Core:test_pass2: Test passed Thanks, -- Basil In GNU Emacs 29.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, cairo version 1.16.0, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2022-11-03 built on tia Repository revision: d540cb00865368bb9df9299838006dfe09255bc6 Repository branch: blc/itree Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12101004 System Description: Debian GNU/Linux bookworm/sid Configured using: 'configure 'CFLAGS=-Og -ggdb3' -C --prefix=/home/blc/.local --enable-checking=structs --with-file-notification=yes --with-x-toolkit=lucid --with-x' Configured features: ACL CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GPM GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ JPEG JSON LCMS2 LIBOTF LIBSELINUX LIBSYSTEMD LIBXML2 M17N_FLT MODULES NOTIFY INOTIFY PDUMPER PNG RSVG SECCOMP SOUND SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS WEBP X11 XAW3D XDBE XIM XINPUT2 XPM LUCID ZLIB Important settings: value of $LANG: en_IE.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix