Re: [AUCTeX-devel] List of errors

[David Kastrup]

Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:

> Is anybody aware of an Emacs library that provides ways to gather a
> list of errors in a separate buffer and make that navigatable?  The
> output one gets when using `M-x compile RET' looks a bit crude.  I am
> thinking of something more sophisticated.
>
> For example, if a LaTeX run contains errors, the user could ask AUCTeX
> to display a list of all errors in a separate window.  So, in the
> upper window one would see the LaTeX file while in the lower window
> something like
>
> ./file.tex:16: Misplaced alignment tab character &.
> ./file.tex:16: Missing $ inserted.
> ./file.tex:17: Missing $ inserted.

It might be worth looking how `grep' and/or `occur' are implemented.
They also offer a follow-mode (C-c C-f or so).

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum