[adopted from a message that Ives posted in the Vim mailing list]

Some compilers produce an error message that cannot be handled with
'errorformat' in Vim.  Following is an example of a Perl script that
translates one error message into something that Vim understands.


The compiler that generates this kind of error messages (4 lines):

"/tmp_mnt/cm/src/apertos/MoU/MetaCore/MetaCore/common/src/MetaCoreImp_M.cc",
line 50: error(3114):
           identifier "PRIMITIVE_M" is undefined
         return(ExecuteCore(PRIMITIVE_M,

You can find a small perl program at the end.
The way I use it is:

:set   errorformat=%f>%l:%c:%t:%n:%m
:set   makeprg=clearmake\ -C\ gnu
:set   shellpipe=2>&1\|\ vimccparse

If somebody thinks this is useful: feel free to do whatever you can think
of with this code.

-Ives
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#!/usr/gnu/bin/perl
#
# This program works as a filter that reads from stdin, copies to
# stdout *and* creates an error file that can be read by vim.
#
# This program has only been tested on SGI, Irix5.3.
#
# Written by Ives Aerts in 1996. This little program is not guaranteed
# to do (or not do) anything at all and can be freely used for
# whatever purpose you can think of.

$args = @ARGV;

unless ($args == 1) {
  die("Usage: vimccparse <output filename>\n");
}

$filename = @ARGV[0];
open (OUT, ">$filename") || die ("Can't open file: \"$filename\"");

while (<STDIN>) {
  print;
  if (   (/"(.*)", line (\d+): (e)rror\((\d+)\):/)
      || (/"(.*)", line (\d+): (w)arning\((\d+)\):/) ) {
    $file=$1;
    $line=$2;
    $errortype="\u$3";
    $errornr=$4;
    chop($errormsg=<STDIN>);
    $errormsg =~ s/^\s*//;
    $sourceline=<STDIN>;
    $column=index(<STDIN>, "^") - 1;

    print OUT "$file>$line:$column:$errortype:$errornr:$errormsg\n";
  }
}

close(OUT);
exit(0);