Hi --
[Please excuse me if you've already seen this; I posted this to
comp.editors before I found this list.]
After reading the docs many times and searching comp.editorsfor help, I
admit I'm stumped -- I simply don't know how to set errorformat properly
to recognize my messages. Here's what I've got:
1. Error/Warning/Information messages may be either one or several
lines.
2. There may be zero, one or more locations in the code pointed to
by a message; but no more than one location per line in a multiline
message.
3. Locations are (literally; including brackets): [filename:line:column]
Sample output is:
Warning [flip.jss:7:10]: type mismatch:
conflict between boolean [flip.jss:4:19]
and string [flip.jss:7:10]
Warning [flip.jss:18:5]: different argument counts:
conflict between 2 arguments [flip.jss:18:9]
and 1 argument [flip.jss:3:14]
Warning [flip.jss:20:7]: invalid "+" usage:
boolean [flip.jss:4:16]
+ undetermined type [flip.jss:20:9]
= undetermined type
The simplest way (for me) to treat these is that each line is a
separate message, with an error location within brackets. So, the
errorformat should specify:
- any non-'[' characters
- a '['
- the filename
- a ':'
- the linenumber
- a ':'
- the column
- a ']'
- the message
which I think means:
set errorformat=%[^[][%f:%l:%v]%m
However, in the quickfix window (:copen), the only lines that are
handled as messages are those with "Warning"; others are unrecognized.
The quickfix window looks like:
flip.jss|7 col 10| : type mismatch:
|| conflict between boolean [flip.jss:4:19]
|| and string [flip.jss:7:10]
flip.jss|18 col 5| : different argument counts:
|| conflict between 2 arguments [flip.jss:18:9]
|| and 1 argument [flip.jss:3:14]
flip.jss|20 col 7| : invalid "+" usage:
|| boolean [flip.jss:4:16]
|| + undetermined type [flip.jss:20:9]
|| = undetermined type
I said aha! and rewrote the error messages without leading spaces.
This had no effect, though ... the lines unlabeled with "Warning"
still were not recognized.
I've tried a lot of other errorformat values, none of which work any
better (most are worse). At this point I feel like I'm reduced to trying
to find a working "magical incantation", rather than understanding and
applying a proper errorformat syntax.
I would *really* appreciate any help. Thanks!
Howard
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