bug#56249: 29.0.50; Compilation buffer parsing "ERROR:" incorrectly

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org> writes:

> or, equivalently,
>
>    `(,(rx
>        bol (* " ") "ERROR:"
>        (group-n 1                       ; file
>          (+ (not (in ":\n"))))
>        ":"
>        (group-n 2 (+ digit))            ; line
>        ": ")
>      1 2)
>
> to `compilation-regexp-alist`. We (that is, I) have no idea what is emitting 
> the message and how stable the format is, so adding it to the standard 
> compilation rule list is a fool's errand. We wouldn't even know what to call 
> it.
>
> If you have deeper knowledge of the tool and how it works then you might want 
> to help us clarify it or even get the message updated to the standard GNU 
> format. Some tools are able to use that format even if they do not emit it by 
> default.

It looks pretty useful to add this to compile.el anyway, so I've now
done so.

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