Questions tagged [errorformat]
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How to correctly set up :make for building Vim?
My question could fairly be a duplicate of this, but I hope I'm making it critically different by asking about :makeing Vim itself and having a meaningful quickfix window. (In reality, my use case is ...
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How to ignore beginning of line in errorformat
I have error or warning messages from some tool with the following format:
2022-08-18T21:25:01.972 WARNING ##] file:///Users/myuser/somedir/file.txt:123: Error: something went wrong
One of the built-...
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Translate file paths in quickfix list
I'm using msys + vim + ninja + MSVC on windows.
When building, the quickfix list has errors that use the windows path, ie
c:\work\folder\file.cpp
Vim handles it ok-ish, it can open the files, but ...
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How to add custom errorformat at the beginning of the list
I added a custom errorformat in my .vimrc like this:
set errorformat+=ERROR:\ %f:%l:%c:\ error:\ %m
However, this doesn't work because an already existing format is matched first (incorrectly). In ...
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What does "any scanf non-assignable conversion" mean?
:help errorformat lists the basic items supported in 'errorformat' and one of them is:
%*{conv} any scanf non-assignable conversion
What does that mean and how can I use it?
The fscanf ...
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How to match two parts of error message and concatenate them?
I try to read :h errorformat:
%m error message (finds a string)
I try to read it, but I practically found that it's impossible to specify %m twice:
E372: Too many %m in format string
I ...
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Change Directory with Errorformat
I'm trying to write an errorformat for JUnit. Directory structure from cwd is:
unsw/piazza/PiazzaForum.java
unsw/piazza/Thread.java
unsw/test/PiazzaTest.java
Amongst all the cruft outputted by JUnit, ...
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How to integrate GCC's fix-it hints into a vim-based workflow?
Modern GCC provides the -fdiagnostics-generate-patch flag:
Options to Control Diagnostic Messages Formatting
[...]
-fdiagnostics-generate-patch
Print fix-it hints to stderr in ...
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vim get error properly formatted in quickfix
Please find my minimal vimrc (whatever I use for Latex compilation)
"General "{{{
set nocompatible " because vim is not vi
"set autowrite ...
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Keep matched filename, line number and column number in the error message
I'm currently trying to create some errorformat rules to parse the output of the black formatter. The output of this formatter is as follows:
would reformat /home/ricks/Development/personal/...
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Import an error file to the quickfix list without leaving vim
I know that the quickfix list is very useful for the edit-compile-edit cycle. I like the fact that we can jump directly to an error from it.
Actually I am trying to understand the way I can parse a ...
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Ignore lines with string in errorformat
I'm writing a GitHub action that creates an annotation for files that would be reformatted when the black python formatter is run. For this, to work, I want to parse the following example output:
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Not recognising "In file included from"
I'm using the default errorformat, but messages starting with "In file included from" aren't giving me the quickfix output I expect
For example:
|| [ 0%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/blah/...
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error not formatted as per efm
I have created a mwe plugin to show my problem for fortran ft.
tree ftrial
ftrial
├── autoload
│ └── makes.vim
└── ftplugin
└── fortran_mk.vim
with
cat ftrial/autoload/makes.vim
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`errorformat` pattern for multiple messages on same line
I am trying to set errorformat=... so that I can parse errors like the following:
error: cannot format /home/user/repo/src/file1.py: Cannot parse: 2:5: some source code here
error: cannot format /home/...
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Quickfix stack doesn't work when using make -j
As mentioned in other questions, using make -C buildpath as makeprg in Vim and the appropriate errorformat triggers the nice handling of the quickfix directory stack.
That is, the quickfix uses the "...
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Vim errorformat to parse output with ANSI color codes [duplicate]
I try to parse output with ANSI codes and I can't cope with definition errorformat.
Example output:
^[[0;31;49mtestdata/examples.rb:3^[[0m Array#shuffle.first is slower than Array#sample.$
After ...
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Configuring Multiple Compiler Plugins in a Single Project
Vim has compiler plugin feature which enables the user to write a compiler configuration, and then running :make will trigger the command, and errorformat will parse the output and will print any ...
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Multiline errorformat
I would like to parse the latex log to extract warnings from the refcheck package. These warnings look like this
Package refcheck Warning: Unused label `eq:my_equation_label' on input line 2
28.
The ...
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Ignore lines in errorformat
I am writing a compiler plugin for eslint. It mostly works, but I want to ignore some lines in the output and am unsure how.
I'm using the eslint "unix" format, which outputs errors like so:
/Users/...
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Errorformat for jest output
I'm trying to configure vim to understand the jest output error format to be able to include it in the quickfix list. Although it does work partly (at least getting the file name and line/column ...
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Errors are not identified in quickfix window
I am using TI compiler and when I build and errors appear in quick fix, they are not identified. The errors look like this in terminal:
"/home/sporty/HydroGuardFW/hw_2_0/hg_os/coap_resources/...
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How to set up compiler globally?
In my vimrc, I have a compiler myCompiler. When the editor starts up, everything is fine. When I switch to a new file, the compiler settings (makeprg and errorformat) revert to their defaults.
How ...
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Errorformat not recognizing my errors
I have errors which looks like this:
[Error] Z:\absolute\file\path.cpp(42): error C2065: 'foo': undeclared identifier
[Info] Z:\another\file\path.cpp(42): error C2050: 'foo': switch expression not ...
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need help with vim errorformat to parse multi-line make (gcc) output
I'm struggling to get vim (8.0 (2016 Sep 12)) to parse the output of my build system, and need help with defining my errorformat. The default gcc efm appears to not be matching any lines, so in ...
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errorformat: can't understand how to handle error for my parser
I have a parser which output this kind of messages:
|| Error: M:\workdir\MyFile.ja: line 38: "Blablabla" has no license declaration
|| Error: M:\workdir\MyFile.ja: unknown attribute "blabla"
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More error context in the QuickFix window?
The output of certain compilers (e.g., LaTeX) is incredibly difficult to parse using an error format string. There are always edge cases that leave out the context of errors. So, is there any way I ...
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What does an at sign (@) do in a VIM errorformat string - I can't figure out the example from VIM's docs
The below example, straight out of the VIM documentation, uses an "at sign" yet nowhere else in the entire document is it mentioned or explained.
Another example: Think of a Python interpreter that ...
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Print an error message without "Error detected while processing function"
If I type:
:echoerr "test error"
I simply get the message printed (with red background):
test error
However, inside a function:
function! Printerror()
echoerr "test error"
endfunction
I get ...
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`'errorformat'` incorrectly matching file name
Consider the following 'errorformat' configuration:
set errorformat=%f:%l:\ %m
And the following message:
%Warning-ASSIGNDLY: test.v:1: Unsupported: Ignoring delay.
While I expected that this ...
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errorformat for Java junit output
I am trying to get VIM to jump to the file listed in the error. So the following is the error.
|| 1) test01(ErrorTest0)
|| java.lang.NullPointerException
|| at Line.equals(Line.java:43)
|| at ...
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Jump to linker errors in quickfix
How can I make linker errors jumpable in quickfix?
Example:
int foo(void);
int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
foo();
}
Start up vim and run :set makeprg=gcc\ % and try :make. This produces a ...
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How to merge multiple strings in errorformat?
Suppose a source code interpreter outputs the error messages in the following format:
M123 Warning path/to/file 123 Description message
That is:
error_code error_type file line_number message
How ...
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