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From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)
Cc: Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: compile.el regexp comments
Date: 25 Mar 2004 11:14:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m38yhptera.fsf@kfs-l.imdomain.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1B6PbY-0007Vz-Pa@fencepost.gnu.org>

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>     Umm, have the comments with example error messages matched by the
>     various compilation-error-regexp's quietly disappeared in the new
>     compile.el?
> 
>     No doubt wizards can tell just at a glance what a regexp matches (and
>     is supposed to match), but I thought the samples were a good crib for
>     mere mortals.
> 
> I found those comments extremely valuable in the past--I hope someone
> will bring them back.

They are now in etc/compilation.txt.

The really cool thing about this is that when you open that file in
emacs, the error messages are decorated by the new compile...

-- 
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> http://www.cua.dk

  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-25 10:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-24 22:27 compile.el regexp comments Kevin Ryde
2004-03-25  7:48 ` Richard Stallman
2004-03-25 10:14   ` Kim F. Storm [this message]
2004-03-25 22:01     ` Kevin Ryde
2004-03-25 20:39 ` Daniel Pfeiffer

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