> PS: Once I get this working I'll tackle the diagnostic messages I get when
> compiling Java code using maven (not my choice).  They look like
> [error] /home/pcanning/src/java/test/PerfTest.java:[66,1] error: reached end
> of file while parsing

For lacheck, a Latex checker, I have this in my profile to put its
messages in the right form:

# for lacheck: format output for acme
fn lacheck $* {builtin lacheck $* | 9 sed 's/"(.*)".*line ([0-9]+):
(.*)/\1:\2:\3/'}

Can you do something similar?

Mark.