patch 8.0.0227: crash with ff=dos when first line in file has no CR commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/2aa5f696b91a51f29873e340de4bdc182e1e8dd4 Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Tue Jan 24 15:46:48 2017 +0100 patch 8.0.0227: crash with ff=dos when first line in file has no CR Problem: Crash when 'fileformat' is forced to "dos" and the first line in the file is empty and does not have a CR character. Solution: Don't check for CR before the start of the buffer.

#!/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)
}