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bug#13335: 24.1; compilation misparses GNU-style message locations
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From: |
Glenn Morris |
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bug#13335: 24.1; compilation misparses GNU-style message locations |
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Date: |
Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:32:18 -0500 |
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Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Mattias Engdegård wrote:
>> LINE1-LINE2.COL2 # this seems to be something Emacs made up AFAICS
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> Is that something we need to keep, or do you consider it a "regression"
> to remove it? It does not look very useful to me (a range of lines but
> the same column?).
It does look fairly nonsensical...
> What about transforming that regexp into rx form, by the way?
> Besides being a more readable form (and fewer backslashes),
> it would also permit explanatory comments to be put at their natural
> places inside.
More comments would be good, but could be inserted just as easily by
breaking the regexp up using concat, so personally I don't see any need
to switch to rx. (I don't always find rx more readable.)