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"Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org> writes:

> Two things: 1) Nobody building a compiler can possibly guarantee you that it
> will work with *your* editor since that could be just about anything. There
> is no "standard" interface to every editor on the planet, so this would be a
> hopeless goal. 

Not to every editor on the planet, but there have been some efforts in
this regard.

DEC defined a standard format for compiler diagnostics (I forget what
it was called), that LSE and other DEC tools could read. For non-DEC
tools (like Emacs), there was a text equivalent.

Gnu tools have a standard format for error messages, making them easy
to parse by simple scripts in editors.

Most programmer-oriented editors allow you to customize the command
line used to invoke compilers and similar tools. 

I don't think we need a real "standard" here, just a common paradigm
and a reasonably powerful scripting language in the editor.

-- 
-- Stephe