(sorry if you read this 3 times; i'm reposting it since i'm getting "Service unavailable" from concorde.inria.fr - perhaps a local problem) Just a tiny suggestion for proud caml authors Make caml error messages compatible with Emacs conventions, for instance compatible with GNU error message convention filename:number: error message Otherwise, give a hint regarding the value of the Emacs variable for parsing error messages; I've added to my ~/.emacs (setq compilation-error-regexp-alist (append compilation-error-regexp-alist '( (".*lines? \\([0-9]+\\)[ \t]+of[ \t]+\"?\\([^\":\n]+\\)\"?" 3 2) ) ) ) But I am not sure it is correct. If people have a better value, please tell it! (If Caml followed usual GNU practice, I won't have to add this). I do know that CAML is not under GNU license, but many published compilers follow the GNU convention (which I find ok). N.B. Any opinions expressed here are solely mine, and not of my organization. N.B. Les opinions exprimees ici me sont personnelles et n engagent pas le CEA. Please cite a *pertinent part* of my mail in all answers Veuillez citer une *partie pertinente* de mon courrier dans vos reponses ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Basile STARYNKEVITCH ---- Commissariat à l Energie Atomique DRN/DMT/SERMA * CEA/Saclay bat.470 * 91191 GIF/YVETTE CEDEX * France fax: (33) 01,69.08.85.68; phone: 01,69.08.40.66; home: 01,46.65.45.53 email: Basile.Starynkevitch@cea.fr (or else basile@soleil.serma.cea.fr); I speak french, english, russian. Je parle français, anglais, russe. ----------------------------------------------------------------------