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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Order of associations in compilation-error-regexp-alist-alist
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 15:00:58 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zk4f3nx1.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83a9wgj5nf.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 24 Sep 2012 08:28:52 +0200")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> This means that if an error message matches more than one regexp
> there, the first one wins.

Yep, and that's the way it's worked for ages.

> If the latter, how do we make sure only the correct regexp matches?

By cunning choice of ordering in compilation-error-regexp-alist.

See also test/automated/compile-tests.el, which is a regression test for
precisely this issue, and etc/compilation.txt for a non-ERT version.



  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-24  7:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-24  6:28 Order of associations in compilation-error-regexp-alist-alist Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-24  7:00 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2012-09-24  7:06   ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-24  7:13     ` Chong Yidong
2012-10-14  7:42       ` Eli Zaretskii

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