patch 8.1.0125: virtual edit replace with multi-byte fails at end of line commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/630afe889a2a02b367ea8eaaa48e66ed81e77ff3 Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Thu Jun 28 19:26:28 2018 +0200 patch 8.1.0125: virtual edit replace with multi-byte fails at end of line Problem: Virtual edit replace with multi-byte fails at end of line. (Lukas Werling) Solution: use ins_char() to add the character. (Christian Brabandt, closes #3114) Rename PCHAR() to PBYTE() to avoid mistakes like this.

#!/usr/bin/nawk -f
#
# Change "nawk" to "awk" or "gawk" if you get errors.
#
# Make Vim Errors
# Processes errors from cc for use by Vim's quick fix tools
# specifically it translates the ---------^ notation to a
# column number
#
BEGIN { FS="[:,]" }

/^cfe/ { file=$3
	 msg=$5
	 split($4,s," ")
	 line=s[2]
}

# You may have to substitute a tab character for the \t here:
/^[\t-]*\^/ {
	p=match($0, ".*\\^" )
	col=RLENGTH-2
	printf("%s, line %d, col %d : %s\n", file,line,col,msg)
}