patch 9.0.1617: charidx() result is not consistent with byteidx() Commit: https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/577922b917e48285a7a312daf7b5bbc6e272939c Author: Yegappan Lakshmanan <yegappan@yahoo.com> Date: Thu Jun 8 17:09:45 2023 +0100 patch 9.0.1617: charidx() result is not consistent with byteidx() Problem: charidx() and utf16idx() result is not consistent with byteidx(). Solution: When the index is equal to the length of the text return the lenght of the text instead of -1. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, closes #12503)

#!/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)
}