GNU bug report logs - #3613
[PATCH] Allow trailing spaces and " -" in filenames for the compile output parser

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Laurence Darby <ldarby <at> tuffmail.com>

Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:15:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: wontfix

Done: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Laurence Darby <ldarby <at> tuffmail.com>
Cc: 3613 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#3613: [PATCH] Allow trailing spaces and " -" in filenames for the compile output parser
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:13:29 +0200

> I actually have a lot of files that have " -" in the names, this patch
> fixes it for me.  If anyone understands this regex (I don't really,
> just kept changing it till it worked), can you see if the change breaks
> anything else?

Your change turns the (core of) regexp back to just ".*?" as it was in
the past.  We disallowed trailing spaces as well as " -" because they
lead to false positives in some cases.
There's no way to win in all cases, sadly.


        Stefan
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