Re: subtle problem of font-lock in *compilation* buffer

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:

> On further consideration, it's impossible to handle this perfectly:

Of course!  A simple way to cheat font-lock is to use "@echo
..." in Makefile.  

> consider compiling a file named "foo -version-info 1", which gives
> rise to the error message

> foo -version-info 1:0: blah blah
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The question is which is important, to handle the above
extremely rare case correctly (and fail in more general
case), or to handle the more general case correctly (and
fail in rarer case).

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Kenichi Handa
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