patch 8.1.0614: placing signs can be complicated commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/162b71479bd4dcdb3a2ef9198a1444f6f99e6843 Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Fri Dec 21 15:17:36 2018 +0100 patch 8.1.0614: placing signs can be complicated Problem: Placing signs can be complicated. Solution: Add functions for defining and placing signs. Introduce a group name to avoid different plugins using the same signs. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, closes #3652)

#!/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)
}