Subject: Re: bug#11335: line with too many colons fools next-error

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2019 10:06:01 +0200

積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <[email-masked]> writes:

> LI> How do you replicate this error?
>
> Real simple.
>
> $ cat /tmp/b
> make -k
> perl -nwe 'next if (length) < 32; print "$ARGV:$.:$_"; $bad=1;END{die
> if $bad}' 201204CS
> 201204CS:1:.....................................
> 201204CS:55:14:00~17:00 (13:50開始開放入場)
> 201204CS:108:.....................................
> Died at -e line 1, <> line 108.
> END failed--call queue aborted, <> line 108.
> make: *** [check_length] Error 22
> $ emacs -nw -Q -eval '(compile "cat /tmp/b")'

Thanks for the easy way to replicate the bug.

> See how the second error line is a different color?

Yup; the first error is fontified as an error, while the second is
fontified as a function name, for some reason.

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