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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>,
	handa@m17n.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: subtle problem of font-lock in *compilation* buffer
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:45:23 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv3bavmu2m.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1GNaLI-0007wC-9r@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed\, 13 Sep 2006 15\:24\:16 -0400")

>> 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.

Sadly, it seems to be becoming more and more common for people to use spaces
in their file/directory names.

OTOH it's still rather unusual to have " -" in a file name, so maybe we can
use that as a telltale sign that we're not looking at a file name (and
hence not an error message either)?


        Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-13 19:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-06  8:16 subtle problem of font-lock in *compilation* buffer Kenichi Handa
2006-09-11  2:59 ` Chong Yidong
2006-09-11  3:56   ` Kenichi Handa
2006-09-11 19:57   ` Richard Stallman
2006-09-12 22:50     ` Chong Yidong
2006-09-13  3:42       ` Chong Yidong
2006-09-13  4:07         ` Kenichi Handa
2006-09-13 19:24         ` Richard Stallman
2006-09-13 19:24       ` Richard Stallman
2006-09-13 19:45         ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2006-09-13 20:17           ` Chong Yidong
2006-09-15 14:29           ` Richard Stallman
2006-09-15 16:27             ` Stefan Monnier
2006-09-16 19:04               ` Richard Stallman
2006-09-17 19:17             ` Juri Linkov
2006-09-18 18:50               ` Richard Stallman

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