Re: [Vala] error messages from valac have some kind of extra formatting that confuses emacs compilation mode

[Luca Bruno <lethalman88 gmail com>]

valac --no-color

On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 6:44 PM, Dan Hitt <dan hitt gmail com> wrote:

> When i compile something with valac, like
>      valac --pkg gio-2.0 some_program.vala
> the error messages apparently include some extra formatting characters.
>
> So, instead of getting only
>    some_program:48.33-48.33: blah blah blah blah,
> in addition some leading characters like "ESCAPE [001m" are emitted.
>
> These presumably make the output red or bold face or something.
>
> But they confuse the compilation mode in emacs, so that it doesn't
> know where to jump to
> in order to walk through the errors in the source tree.
>
> I looked at the man page for valac, and did not see any way to turn
> off the extra formatting.
>
> I presume there must be, because after all these years i can hardly be
> first to have this problem.
>
> Thanks in advance for any clues, even RTFM if you point me to the
> right fine manual to read!
>
> dan
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