From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: subtle problem of font-lock in *compilation* buffer Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:24:26 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87ejujxg42.fsf@furball.mit.edu> <87fyewpun5.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87vensh1ol.fsf@furball.mit.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1158175569 25194 80.91.229.2 (13 Sep 2006 19:26:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 19:26:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, handa@m17n.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 13 21:26:05 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GNaMs-0003JQ-6h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 21:25:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GNaMr-0002sx-Hn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:25:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GNaLT-00018w-Rr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:24:28 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GNaLT-00018R-5s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:24:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GNaLS-00018L-Ur for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:24:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GNaNF-0000EQ-CS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:26:17 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1GNaLS-0007xP-2Y; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:24:26 -0400 Original-To: Chong Yidong In-reply-to: <87vensh1ol.fsf@furball.mit.edu> (message from Chong Yidong on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 23:42:50 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:59792 Archived-At: On further consideration, it's impossible to handle this perfectly: consider compiling a file named "foo -version-info 1", which gives rise to the error message foo -version-info 1:0: blah blah ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ In the absence of a robust quoting convention for file names in error messages, there will always be the possibility of confusion for certain file names that contain unusual file names. Our priority is to parse the messages correctly in the case of sensible file names. If this means that some bizarre file names will cause trouble, too bad -- we recommend that people rename those files. Would you like to fix Compilation mode to highlight these messages properly in the normal case?