Re: Capture output of :make

On 16 October 2015, LCD 47 <lcd047@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16 October 2015, Christian Brabandt <cblists@256bit.org> wrote:
> > Hi Nicola!
> >
> > On Do, 15 Okt 2015, Nicola wrote:
> >
> > > On 2015-10-15 14:54:17 +0000, Gary Johnson said:
> > >
> > > >To solve the particular problem of setting 'errorformat' without
> > > >disturbing the global setting, you could either set the value for
> > > >just the current buffer like this:
> > > >
> > > > setlocal errorformat=%f:%l:%m
> > >
> > > I have tried that, but cexpr (and lexpr, too!) uses the global value
> > > of errorformat.
> >
> > Sounds like a bug to me. Does this patch fix it?
> [...]
>
> Are you sure this is a bug? There is no reason for the result of
> cexpr / lexpr to depend on the current buffer. The change you suggest
> would be backwards incompatible, for no real gain as far as I can tell.

The current behaviour is even documented:

: If {expr} is a String, then each new-line terminated
: line in the String is processed using the global value
: of 'errorformat' and the result is added to the
: quickfix list.

/lcd

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