From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: subtle problem of font-lock in *compilation* buffer Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:45:23 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87ejujxg42.fsf@furball.mit.edu> <87fyewpun5.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1158176763 29703 80.91.229.2 (13 Sep 2006 19:46:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 19:46:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , handa@m17n.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 13 21:45:59 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 1GNag6-0007A8-UQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 21:45:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GNag6-0004UK-Gj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:45:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GNafv-0004UF-Jg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:45:35 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GNafr-0004Rf-1i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:45:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GNafq-0004Rc-UH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:45:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GNahc-0002cc-RT; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:47:20 -0400 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91E6F2CEB8D; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:45:29 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (faina.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.26.177]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EB3A3FE0; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:45:23 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 79A714C6D25; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:45:23 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed\, 13 Sep 2006 15\:24\:16 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-2.82, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -2.82) X-DIRO-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca 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:59799 Archived-At: >> 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