[Geany] integrating external tools (e.g. lint)

[Nick Treleaven]

On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 09:32:40 +0000 (UTC)
AC <gmane.0vd at gishpuppy.com> wrote:

> However, it seems the RegEx isn't working as expected:
>     error_regex=(.+?):([0-9]+)
> When I click on the following error message:
>     test.py:7:24: E202 whitespace before ']'
> ... the status bar says:
>     Could not open /tmp/test.py:7 (No such file or directory)"
> So it appears the non-greedy matching doesn't work.

Thanks for pointing this out, I've now updated the docs (but the web
docs might not be up to date until tomorrow):

    *Example:* ``error_regex=(.+):([0-9]+):[0-9]+``

    This will parse a message such as:
    ``test.py:7:24: E202 whitespace before ']'``

I'd thought GNU regex did support non-greedy matching, but evidently my
initial tests weren't good enough to show they didn't. For reference, I
have glibc-2.4-11 (Fedora Core 5).

Regards,
Nick