diff lisp/progmodes/compile.el @ 23263:03626baa368a

(compilation-error-screen-columns): New variable. (compilation-next-error-locus): Use it to decide whether to use forward-char or move-to-column.

--- a/lisp/progmodes/compile.el	Wed Sep 16 07:21:31 1998 +0000
+++ b/lisp/progmodes/compile.el	Fri Sep 18 09:06:20 1998 +0000
@@ -353,6 +353,17 @@
 Each elt has the form (REGEXP). This alist is by default empty, but if
 you have some good regexps here, the parsing of messages will be faster.")
 
+(defcustom compilation-error-screen-columns t
+  "*If non-nil, column numbers in error messages are screen columns.
+Otherwise they are interpreted as character positions, with
+each character occupying one column.
+The default is to use screen columns, which requires that the compilation
+program and Emacs agree about the display width of the characters,
+especially the TAB character."
+  :type 'boolean
+  :group 'compilation
+  :version "20.4")
+
 (defcustom compilation-read-command t
   "*If not nil, M-x compile reads the compilation command to use.
 Otherwise, M-x compile just uses the value of `compile-command'."
@@ -1497,7 +1508,9 @@
 			      (goto-line last-line)
 			      (if (and column (> column 0))
 				  ;; Columns in error msgs are 1-origin.
-				  (forward-char (1- column))
+				  (if compilation-error-screen-columns
+				      (move-to-column (1- column))
+				    (forward-char (1- column)))
 				(beginning-of-line))
 			      (setcdr next-error (point-marker))
 			      ;; Make all the other error messages referring
@@ -1521,7 +1534,9 @@
 								lines))
 					 (forward-line lines))
 				       (if (and column (> column 1))
-					   (forward-char (1- column))
+					   (if compilation-error-screen-columns
+					       (move-to-column (1- column))
+					     (forward-char (1- column)))
 					 (beginning-of-line))
 				       (setq last-line this)
 				       (setcdr (car errors) (point-marker))))