Added support for "double-click, goto error" in error buffer; core/events.lua

1 files changed, 36 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/core/events.lua b/core/events.lua
index 3fe609e3..13a41077 100644
--- a/core/events.lua
+++ b/core/events.lua
@@ -248,6 +248,42 @@ add_handler('save_point_left',
   end)
 
 ---
+-- [Local table] A table of error string details.
+-- Each entry is a table with the following fields:
+--   pattern: the Lua pattern that matches a specific error string.
+--   filename: the index of the Lua capture that contains the filename the error
+--     occured in.
+--   line: the index of the Lua capture that contains the line number the error
+--     occured on.
+--   message: [Optional] the index of the Lua capture that contains the error's
+--     message. A call tip will be displayed if a message was captured.
+-- When an error message is double-clicked, the user is taken to the point of
+--   error.
+-- @class table
+-- @name _error_details
+local _error_details = {
+  lua = { pattern = '^lua: ([^:]+):(%d+): (.+)$',
+          filename = 1, line = 2, message = 3 }
+}
+
+add_handler('double_click',
+  function(pos, line_num) -- goes to the file and line specified by line's text
+    if buffer.shows_errors then
+      line = buffer:get_line(line_num)
+      for _, error_detail in pairs(_error_details) do
+        local captures = { line:match(error_detail.pattern) }
+        if #captures > 0 then
+          textadept.io.open( captures[error_detail.filename] )
+          _m.textadept.editing.goto_line( captures[error_detail.line] )
+          local msg = captures[error_detail.message]
+          if msg then buffer:call_tip_show(buffer.current_pos, msg) end
+          break
+        end
+      end
+    end
+  end)
+
+---
 -- [Local table] A table of (integer) brace characters with their matches.
 -- @class table
 -- @name _braces