Re: GNU Coding Standards: Errors

[Ben Pfaff]

address@hidden (Karl Berry) writes:

>     sourcefile:line1.column1-line2.column2: message
>
> That is the most complicated case.  I very much doubt you need to use it.
> But here is an example:
> foo.c:10.50-11.51: some message
>
> Says that "some message" relates to the region in foo.c between column
> 50 of line 10 and column 51 of line 11.

Anyone considering these more sophisticated forms should be aware
that Emacs does not interpret all of them correctly, as I
reported in 2010:
        http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=7725