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Subject: Re: subtle problem of font-lock in *compilation* buffer
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    > How about by the spaces in the "file name"?

    It would wrongly reject compilation messages for file names containing
    spaces.

I'd rather have that problem than the problem we have now.
People shouldn't use such names for their source files.

    >  Or, more generally, we may be able tell that a line matching with
    > "^/bin/sh " is not an error message.

    This would be wrong if you are compiling the file /bin/sh (unlikely as
    that may seem).

I'd rather have that problem than the problem we have now.  For
/bin/sh to be a source file is not just absurd, but impossible as well
on GNU-like systems.