From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Format of compilation-error-regexp-alist-alist
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 01:11:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4418AD47.3040207@student.lu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dva9ji$2qu$1@sea.gmane.org>
Kevin Rodgers wrote:
> Lennart Borgman wrote:
>> I do not understand the format of
>> `compilation-error-regexp-alist-alist. I can not find in the
>> documentation how the first element in the entries are used. Where is
>> absoft, ada, aix etc used? If I want to add a new entry to the alist
>> for support of a new command what should this new command output to
>> match the names (absoft, ada etc)?
>>
>> Am I missing something in the documentation?
>
> Well, it's doc string says:
>
> | Alist of values for `compilation-error-regexp-alist'
>
> And if you click on the link in the *Help* buffer, that
> variable's doc string says:
>
> | Instead of an alist element, you can use a symbol, which is
> | looked up in `compilation-error-regexp-alist-alist'. You can see
> | the predefined symbols and their effects in the file
> | `etc/compilation.txt' (linked below if you are customizing this).
>
> So I think a new command should have its own symbol.
>
Thanks for the answer. I finally understood that I could bind
`compilation-error-regexp-alist' etc before calling (compile ...). That
made it very simple.
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-15 23:08 Format of compilation-error-regexp-alist-alist Lennart Borgman
2006-03-15 23:55 ` Kevin Rodgers
2006-03-16 0:11 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
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