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11.91.0; wrong alert about inexistent LaTeX errors

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From: Mosè Giordano <mose <at> gnu.org>
To: jfbu <jfbu <at> free.fr>
Cc: 28953 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#28953: 11.91.0; wrong alert about inexistent LaTeX errors
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 14:42:37 +0200

Hi Jean-François,

2017-10-23 11:11 GMT+02:00 jfbu <jfbu <at> free.fr>:
> Hi, here is minimal example:
>
> \documentclass{article}
> \begin{document}
> \typeout{Hello:1: }
> \end{document}
>
> This triggers AUCTeX log parser to report wrongly
> that there were compilation errors.
>
> The two colons and the space conspire to this result.
>
> It happened in real life example.

I think you're asking too much :-)  I don't see any meaningful way to
distinguish between a real error and a message you write to the log
that is exactly equal to the file-line-error style.  The same happens
with \typeout{! hello world}.

Bye,
Mosè

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