From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: compile.el regexp comments Date: 25 Mar 2004 11:14:33 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87vfkthoda.fsf@zip.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1080206377 7872 80.91.224.253 (25 Mar 2004 09:19:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 09:19:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Kevin Ryde , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 25 10:19:34 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B6R1R-0003aH-00 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 10:19:33 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B6R1M-0004ul-00 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 10:19:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B6R0f-0006Ki-9Z for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 04:18:45 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B6Qzh-0005vK-FD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 04:17:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B6Qx1-0004xd-1g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 04:15:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [212.88.64.25] (helo=mail-relay.sonofon.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B6Qx0-0004x0-2H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 04:14:58 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 95960 invoked from network); 25 Mar 2004 09:14:51 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk) (213.83.150.2) by 0 with SMTP; 25 Mar 2004 09:14:51 -0000 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:20883 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20883 Richard Stallman 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 http://www.cua.dk