Re: help: adapting your library to new M-x compile

[Kai Grossjohann]

Ian Zimmerman <bayard@newsguy.com> writes:

> Daniel> - textmodes/tex-mode.el:
>
> Daniel> Parsing classical TeX output is impossible to get right.  Make
> Daniel> TeX use -file-line-error-style or -c-style-errors with normal
> Daniel> compile.  Making this work together with comint for interaction
> Daniel> is under study, and will be handled by my library.
>
> Just making sure I understand what you're proposing here - have an elisp
> wrapper program watch the output of real TeX and filter it then output
> error messages in cc format to the compilation buffer?

Recent web2c versions of TeX support the -c-style-errors (or similar)
command line option.  Using it means that the output of TeX changes.

Kai