> Why not use the location of the text-properties added by the filter to
> inform compile of the column?
>
> [What does font-lock have to do with it anyway?  Does compile use
> font-lock these days???]

compile uses a specification list similar to font-lock-keywords to
specify how to highlight the keywords.  It translates this list to
font-lock-keywords with additional code to put some compile-specific
text-properties.  Then this list is processed by font-lock machinery.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/


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