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Compilation mode turns each error message in the buffer into a hyperlink; you can move point to it and type RET, or click on it with the mouse (see Mouse References), to visit the locus of the error message in a separate window.

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Changing the compilation mode current directory automatically?

Currently, my compilation command is as follow: cd ~/somedir && ./somescript.sh This prevents emacs from finding the file in which an error happens (and opening it). Of course I can run M-x cd manually but is there a way to tell the buffer to…
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How can I detect compilation-mode is waiting for input

This often trips me up when building Linux kernels. I'll kick of a compile and after a while I realise it's not completed. What's usually happened is because the default config has changed it's waiting for user input in the compilation window. For…
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Which regexp from compilation-error-regexp-alist is used by compilation-mode?

I spent a while debugging the regex in compilation-error-regexp-alist only to find that the regex itself is fine. My current theory is that compilation-mode is just actually using a different regex instead. The error message is: ERROR:…
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How to highlight the compilation buffer?

I try to define a custom coloring of the compilation buffer, but I can not get the highlight correctly. (add-to-list 'compilation-error-regexp-alist 'my-message) (add-to-list 'compilation-error-regexp-alist-alist '(my-message …
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show error message on its own line?

I'm using M-x compile to check for compilation errors and it's great. However, I'm wondering if I can get the actual error message to begin on its own line. For some reason the file path shows up as the absolute file path, which is unnecessary IMO…
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How to see color output when compiling?

Some compilers support color output, which I find helpful when viewing compiler output. GCC for example supports -fdiagnostics-color=always. I would like to build using emacs's compile mode which has the advantage of being able to jump to the…
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TTY allocation in *Compilation* buffer

I am using some complicated combination of Cygwin (for emacs) and Docker (for Linux environment) for C++ development on my laptop. Recently I noticed that Docker dumps lots of ANSI and XTERM sequences into my *Compilation* buffer. Using redirection…
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How to use a separate window for compilation output?

When building, a split view is opened for the output. It's possible to close this window, open a new window and set the buffer to the build output. However when building again, the other window isn't used. Instead a new split is created in the same…
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Print elapsed time in compilation buffer

The compilation buffer prints out start and end date for my compilation. How can I make it also tell me how many minutes & seconds it spent? I'd like something like: Compilation started at Thu Mar 16 09:10:44 [..] Compilation finished at Thu Mar 16…
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compilation-mode and next-error confusion

I'm going crazy trying to understand why compilation mode and next-error recognize some errors and not others. It appears as though we're long past the days of simple regexps for recognizing errors but I'm not finding anything that explains what…
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Simultaneously compiling two or more projects with Compilation Mode

I haven't found a way to use Compilation Mode in two projects simultaneously. Starting compilation in a second project kills the compilation of the first. Is it possible to run two compilations simultaneously, perhaps with separate buffers…
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How to move the point to next link?

Let's say the compilation error has some filenames with line number blah blah src/awesomefile1.c:31 src/awesomefile2.c:152 blah blah Assume the filename are parsed in the buffer and are links. Now my cursor is at the beginning of the buffer. I…
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OSX: shaking the mouse during compiler output makes it go faster. Why?

I frequently run a Maven job in compilation mode. Maven is very verbose and spews all sorts of stuff to the screen. The build as you might imagine runs for a while. Randomly, while bored and waiting for this job to complete, I happened to notice…
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Overriding the compilation regex to match files and lines for a new tool

How do you get compilation mode to properly detect and underline the file:line pattern of a given tool, to be able to click to directly get to them?
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Reduce false matches of compilations errors

I am running Emacs 28.2. After I recently upgraded from Emacs 27, I started to get a lot of false matches in the compilation buffer. (They may have been there before, but I had to remove my customization of compilation-error-regexp-alist to get…
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