error message formatting

[Kaz Kylheku]

On Friday, April 17, 1998 2:37 AM, Pieter Nagel [SMTP:pnagel@epiuse.co.za] 
wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Anthony Shipman wrote:
>
> > I don't know what problems multiple-line error messages might cause for
> > other tools.
>
> They will break many IDE's which spawn the compiler in the
> background and capture it's error output.

The IDE's are broken. It is their responsibility to parse the compiler output
properly.

Vim, for instance, has few problems with multi-line errors. The only
annoyance is that each line is treated as an individual error, so
that it takes three :cn commands to step through a three line
error. Other than that, it's fine. If you bind a key to traverse the
errors, the aggravation is minimal.