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"Theepa Somasundaram" <theepa@hemphil.f9.co.uk> writes:

> Within emacs, using elisp, is there any way of filtering the output
> to a compilation buffer?
>
> for instance if the shell echoes the line, 
>             "gud dummy.exe"
> can I pick it from compile.el, or something, and call my own
> function, which might start the debugger?

Of course, you can search the *compilation* buffer and then extract a
line from it and so on.

But I think that's not the right approach.  Investigate the
call-make-from-M-x-gdb approach that I suggested in the other message.

Alas, you might have to fiddle with the Lisp source...
-- 
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