Re: compilation-error-regexp-alist syntax problems

[Stefan Monnier]

> But then does it only work for files that provide a feature identical
> to (the base of) the file name?

Not at all.  It doesn't care at all about filenames (or files for that
matter).  You give a FEATURE (i.e. a symbol) to `eval-after-load', and it is
matched to the FEATURE passed to `provide'.

> Right, but that's because compile-internal overrides any changes to the
> following variables that compilation-mode-hook might make to them:

Indeed.  I think that's what should be fixed.


        Stefan