Re: compile.el does not find errors in numeric filenames

[Rajsekar]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     files like 
>
>     ../../C:/hello.cc are recognized as valid filenames by cvs version.  Is it
>     valid?
>
> That is a valid file name on GNU or Unix.  Perhaps on MS Windows it is
> not.  However, if compile.el recognizes impossible file names if they
> appear in an error message, that is not necessarily a problem.  It
> only becomes a problem if this leads to incorrect parsing of error
> messages that really occur.
>

The patch does not seem to cause any problems in parsing/fontifying.  It
also makes sure numeric filenames (10231.cc) are fontifies+parsed
correctly.

Could someone commit it to the CVS?

-- 
    Rajsekar Manokaran
    IIT Madras