patch 8.1.1015: quickfix buffer shows up in list, can't get buffer number commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/647e24ba3dbf7ff448aa471b1a659a18267ae056 Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Sun Mar 17 16:39:46 2019 +0100 patch 8.1.1015: quickfix buffer shows up in list, can't get buffer number Problem: Quickfix buffer shows up in list, can't get buffer number. Solution: Make the quickfix buffer unlisted when the quickfix window is closed. get the quickfix buffer number with getqflist(). (Yegappan Lakshmanan, closes #4113)

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From: jimmer@barney.mdhc.mdc.com (J. McGlasson)
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 13:16:49 -0700 (Mar)

My compiler (SGI MIPSpro C compiler - IRIX 6.4) works like this.
I have written a script mve (make vim errors), through which I pipe my make
output, which translates output of the following form:

cfe: Error: syntax.c, line 4: Syntax Error
     int i[12;
 ------------^

into:

 cl.c, line 4, col 12 :  Syntax Error

(in vim notation:  %f, line %l, col %c : %m)

You might be able to tailor this for your compiler's output.