Re: [ jEdit-users ] Error List plugin

[Slava P. <sl...@je...>]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 02:21:06PM -0400, John Gellene wrote:
> One solution might be for the error parser to maintain state between lines
> of parsed output.  You could specify text patterns for ERROR, ERROR_DATA,
> SUB_ERROR and END_ERROR.  You would have to link error patterns more closely
> with particular programs; they would become more like syntax highlighting
> modes in their complexity and accessibility.  I think ultimately a set of
> error patterns should be associated with a project, as an adjunct of the
> tool or tools that the project uses.  Sounds more and more like an IDE to
> me.

I think this is the best solution. I will try and implement it in
Console 3.0, or maybe a subsequent release.

> A more immediate and less ambitious fix might involve two things:
> 
> (1) Make error sorting by file name optional.  I question whether file
> sorting in a tree as opposed to a linear list is really that useful to
> anyone, but providing this option makes that discussion academic.

This is harder than your first suggestion.

> (2) Make another option that would cause all non-blank lines of text
> following a error pattern hit to be part of the same leaf node until the
> next hit occurs or end of stream is reached.  This may end up being a little
> overinclusive in writing leaf node text, even after some tweaking and
> hacking. It would still be a lot more useful.

I don't like this one either; it would add too much junk that is not
actually part of the error message to errors.

Slava