Re: jumping to errors in non-existent files

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 7:30 PM, Jeff Perry <jeffsp@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> When I run my program from within vim
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>      :./xyz
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> and the program errors out with a runtime error, e.g.:
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>     myprog: myprog.cpp:123: assertion 'x==1' failed
>
> vim tries to interpret the the output and jump to the offending line number.
>
> The problem is that in the example above it incorrectly interprets the filename as "myprog: myprog.cpp", so it opens a file with that name, which doesn't exist, and then tries to jump to line 123 in that non-existent file.
>
> My question is:  Where in vim is this behaviour specified and how can I tweak it to do the right thing?

See :help errorformat

Try,
:set efm=%*[^\ ]%f:%l:%m

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