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From: Sebastian Wiesner <lunaryorn@gmail.com>
To: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: compile mode and $EMACS
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 14:42:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALf2awR-3ai9zgfV2-daxrVkpgPg2tLfJRotFMTQeRfAxcNuvg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a9kommx9.fsf@informatimago.com>

2013/8/11 Pascal J. Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com>:
> Sebastian Wiesner <lunaryorn@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I just discovered that compile mode adds "EMACS=t" to the process
>> environment (see "compilation-start").
>>
>> […] How is it supposed to be interpreted by the invoked program?  […]
>
> Some compilers may have different error message output formats depending
> on whether they're run INSIDE_EMACS or not.

Which ones?  Can you name *concrete* examples?

> For example, ant has the -e option to output emacs friendly formatted
> error messages.

Yes, uhm, that's an explicit option to enable Emacs-friendly
formatting.  Many tools have those.  But I see no $EMACS variable
involved here…



  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-11 12:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-10 16:47 compile mode and $EMACS Sebastian Wiesner
2013-08-10 22:38 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-08-11 10:39   ` Sebastian Wiesner
2013-08-11 12:28 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-08-11 12:42   ` Sebastian Wiesner [this message]
2013-08-11 13:06     ` Andreas Schwab

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