Allow next-error to work with csc.exe

Allow next-error to work with csc.exe

[D Chiesa]

Hey, I posted this independently, and someone suggested I should send it to 
this mailing list.
I don't read the list, so I'm not sure if this is useful or on-topic or 
what.  My apologies in advance if this is noise.

Here is a fragment of elisp to allow next-error to grok errors generated by 
the Microsoft C# compiler (csc.exe).

I'm sure this isn't the best format for general use, and someone will 
probably want to format it properly, and use the append and so on.  But the 
regex's are there for the taking.

I also added regex's for vjc.exe, which is the Visual J++ compiler, and the 
C/C++ compiler from Microsoft.   These are all command-line compilers 
available in the Windows Platform SDK (a free download) and the .NET 
Framework SDK (also a free download).

send me mail if questions or problems.

-Dino
ps: my original post is here: 
http://blogs.msdn.com/dotnetinterop/archive/2008/05/22/emacs-regex-to-grok-csc-compilation-errors.aspx

;; to allow next-error to work with csc.exe:
(setq compilation-scroll-output t)
(setq-default compilation-error-regexp-alist
;       (append
 '(
 ; Microsoft VJC:
 ;sample.java(6,1) : error J0020: Expected 'class' or 'interface'
 ("\\(\\([a-zA-Z]:\\)?[^:(\t\n]+\\)(\\([0-9]+\\)[,]\\([0-9]+\\)): 
\\(error\\|warning\\) VJS[0-9]+:" 1 3 4)

 ;; Wed, 04 Aug 2004  09:29
 ;; also handle whitespace at beginning of line (for nant output)
 ;;
 ;C# Compiler
 ;t.cs(6,18): error SC1006: Name of constructor must match name of class
 ;
 ("[ \t]*\\(\\([_a-zA-Z:\]:\\)?[^:(\t\n]+\\)(\\([0-9]+\\)[,]\\([0-9]+\\)): 
\\(error\\|warning\\) CS[0-9]+:" 1 3 4)

 ; Microsoft C/C++:
 ;  keyboard.c(537) : warning C4005: 'min' : macro redefinition
 ;  d:\tmp\test.c(23) : error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before 'if'
 ;VC EEi
 ;e:\projects\myce40\tok.h(85) : error C2236: unexpected 'class' '$S1'
 ;myc.cpp(14) : error C3149: 'class System::String' : illegal use of managed 
type 'String'; did you forget a '*'?
    ("\\(\\([a-zA-Z]:\\)?[^:(\t\n]+\\)(\\([0-9]+\\)) \
: \\(error\\|warning\\) C[0-9]+:" 1 3)
 )
;;  compilation-error-regexp-alist)
)