[TxMt] Makefile support?

[Allan Odgaard]

On 03/10/2007, at 22:52, Niko Matsakis wrote:

> [...]
> I checked out the Makefile bundle from SVN, but while that does  
> allow you to *run* a Makefile, it doesn't allow you to click on an  
> error message and be taken to the relevant source file, or do any  
> other interactive goodness, unless I am mistaken.

It should make links clickable. Though a makefile can run arbitrary  
shell commands, so it might be your command output errors in a way not  
supported by the current regexp.

> In general, it seems it would be nice if there were a way to run an  
> arbitrary command and filter the output for file names and line  
> numbers (kind of like M-x compile) [...]

This is what I tried to create with the tm_parser ruby module used by  
the Make command. It filters stdin based on the typical file:line: 
[column:]error pattern and makes the errors clickable (by outputting  
HTML, and expecting this to be is used in a “Show as HTML” context).

But basically all the script runners / compilers we have (except  
Makefile bundle) do not use it, because they can provide a much better  
user experience by not outsourcing those 3 lines of regexp-matching ;)