patch 8.1.1816: cannot use a user defined function as a method commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/fcfe1a9b8950b8b211ab3b24d84b17c6847ea43f Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Sun Aug 4 23:04:39 2019 +0200 patch 8.1.1816: cannot use a user defined function as a method Problem: Cannot use a user defined function as a method. Solution: Pass the base as the first argument to the user defined function after "->". (partly by FUJIWARA Takuya)

#!/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)
}