Re: [Caml-list] modified error messages for ocamlc

["Daniel Bünzli" <daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch>]

Le dimanche, 14 avril 2013 à 19:19, Jonathan Protzenko a écrit :
> The OCaml mode for emacs that's distributed along with the OCaml  
> sources contains (caml.el) :
>  
> 796 ;; Newer emacs versions support line/char ranges
> 797 ;; We will adapt OCaml to output error messages in a compatible  
> format.
> 798 ;; In the meantime we add the new format here in addition to the  
> old one.
> 799 (defconst caml-error-regexp-newstyle
> 800 "^[ A-\377]+ \"\\([^\"\n]+\\)\", line \\([0-9]+\\), char  
> \\([0-9]+\\) to line \\([0-9]+\\), char \\([0-9]+\\):"
> 801 "Regular expression matching the error messages produced by  
> ocamlc/ocamlopt.")
>  
> So there are provisions already in the Emacs mode for parsing  
> multi-line error formats. What refrains us from switching directly to  
> the format that's recognized by the already-distributed Caml mode ?


This discussion is very confusing. There's nothing special to be done here, it already works… The "old" version of the original message does exactly what it needs to do to highlight multiline errors.  

Daniel