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authorYegappan Lakshmanan <yegappan@yahoo.com>2023-10-25 20:50:28 +0200
committerChristian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>2023-10-25 20:50:28 +0200
commitb731800522af00fd348814d33a065b92e698afc3 (patch)
tree7607eb64e4a8475a13341590ac6cd7bd7f2f499d /runtime/doc/quickfix.txt
parent5985879e3c36383155f84649fa42d06813a1893e (diff)
patch 9.0.2064: cannot use buffer-number for errorformatv9.0.2064
Problem: cannot use buffer-number for errorformat Solution: add support for parsing a buffer number using '%b' in 'errorformat' closes: #13419 Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org> Co-authored-by: Yegappan Lakshmanan <yegappan@yahoo.com>
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@@ -1422,6 +1422,7 @@ rest is ignored. Items can only be 1023 bytes long.
Basic items
%f file name (finds a string)
+ %b buffer number (finds a number)
%o module name (finds a string)
%l line number (finds a number)
%e end line number (finds a number)
@@ -1461,6 +1462,11 @@ On MS-Windows a leading "C:" will be included in "%f", even when using "%f:".
This means that a file name which is a single alphabetical letter will not be
detected.
+The "%b" conversion is used to parse a buffer number. This is useful for
+referring to lines in a scratch buffer or a buffer with no name. If a buffer
+with the matching number doesn't exist, then that line is used as a non-error
+line.
+
The "%p" conversion is normally followed by a "^". It's used for compilers
that output a line like: >
^