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Re: Emacs and GFortran
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 10:59:11AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> "Fran?ois-Xavier Coudert" <fxcoudert@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Frankly, I strongly prefer the current error formating.
I agree with FX.
>
> It is not necessary to completely change the format, nor to make it
> human unfriendly, merely make sure that key info (filename/line/colum)
> is available in a standard form.
>
> I.e., keep the verbose "squishy good for humans" stuff (e.g. showing a
> little picture of where the error occurred), but change the numeric info
> into a standard form. As Stefan mentioned, the difference seems rather
> gratuitous (" In file F:L" versus "F:L:").
>
Are you aware that gfortran can report errors that span multiple lines?
--
Steve