Re: How to edit compilation-error-regexp-alist in .emacs file?

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

"Siegfried Heintze" <siegfried@heintze.com> writes:

> When I put the following in my .emacs fail, I get an error. This is probably
> because the necessary modules have not been loaded yet.
>
> How do I automatically execute these statements after the necessary modules
> have been loaded?
>
> (setcar (car compilation-error-regexp-alist) (concat "\\(\\[Error\\]
> \\|\\[Fatal Error\\] \\)?"  (caar compilation-error-regexp-alist)))
>   (setcdr (car compilation-error-regexp-alist) '(3 4 7))

This is better style:

(add-to-list 'compilation-error-regexp-alist
             '("your-regexp-here" 3 4 7))

Before that, you might need (require 'compile), or you need to put the
add-to-list statement in a hook, or in an eval-after-load.  The
require statement is simplest, at the cost of some Emacs startup time.

kai
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