Re: subtle problem of font-lock in *compilation* buffer

[Juri Linkov]

>     Sadly, it seems to be becoming more and more common for people to use 
> spaces
>     in their file/directory names.
>
> We can try to find clever ways to distinguish, as you've done here.
> (Thanks for thinking of it.)
>
> Despite the best we can do, there will still be some names that could
> be confused with parts of compiler messages, such that we can't
> distinguish.  When that happens, we have to parse the compiler
> messages properly.  If someone actually uses a name that causes
> confusion, we have to tell him "Don't use names like that."

The next version of GNU grep will output special markers around
file names in the grep output.  We could use them after the release.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/