Subject: Re: bug#10258: compilation-error-regexp-alist just assumes columns not characters

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:28:22 -0500

> there is nary a mention of what to do when the compiler making the
> message is counting characters (TAB=1) and emacs is thinking it is
> counting columns (TAB=8, etc.).

There's compilation-error-screen-columns, but it can't be set only for
a specific compilation-error-regexp-alist entry.  OTOH in Emacs-24, you
can set it buffer-locally in the target buffer (i.e. in your
TaiwanAMFMSW.xq file).

        Stefan