Re: compile.el regexp comments

[Kim F. Storm]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     Umm, have the comments with example error messages matched by the
>     various compilation-error-regexp's quietly disappeared in the new
>     compile.el?
> 
>     No doubt wizards can tell just at a glance what a regexp matches (and
>     is supposed to match), but I thought the samples were a good crib for
>     mere mortals.
> 
> I found those comments extremely valuable in the past--I hope someone
> will bring them back.

They are now in etc/compilation.txt.

The really cool thing about this is that when you open that file in
emacs, the error messages are decorated by the new compile...

-- 
Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk