[adopted from a message that Ives posted in the Vim mailing list] Some compilers produce an error message that cannot be handled with 'errorformat' in Vim. Following is an example of a Perl script that translates one error message into something that Vim understands. The compiler that generates this kind of error messages (4 lines): "/tmp_mnt/cm/src/apertos/MoU/MetaCore/MetaCore/common/src/MetaCoreImp_M.cc", line 50: error(3114): identifier "PRIMITIVE_M" is undefined return(ExecuteCore(PRIMITIVE_M, You can find a small perl program at the end. The way I use it is: :set errorformat=%f>%l:%c:%t:%n:%m :set makeprg=clearmake\ -C\ gnu :set shellpipe=2>&1\|\ vimccparse If somebody thinks this is useful: feel free to do whatever you can think of with this code. -Ives ____________________________________________________________ Ives Aerts (SW Developer) Sony Telecom Europe ives@sonytel.be St.Stevens Woluwestr. 55 `Death could create most things, B-1130 Brussels, Belgium except for plumbing.' PHONE : +32 2 724 19 67 (Soul Music - T.Pratchett) FAX : +32 2 726 26 86