[ The mve awk script was posted on the vimdev mailing list ] From: jimmer@barney.mdhc.mdc.com (J. McGlasson) Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 13:16:49 -0700 (Mar) My compiler (SGI MIPSpro C compiler - IRIX 6.4) works like this. I have written a script mve (make vim errors), through which I pipe my make output, which translates output of the following form: cfe: Error: syntax.c, line 4: Syntax Error int i[12; ------------^ into: cl.c, line 4, col 12 : Syntax Error (in vim notation: %f, line %l, col %c : %m) You might be able to tailor this for your compiler's output.