compile-mode

pathname translation in Emacs for finding local source file path from remote (ssh compile) error filenames

Is there some sort of general pathname-rewriting/normalizing facility I can exploit in Emacs to allow source files in compile-mode to be translated to local paths based on remote paths? I was hoping to use symbolic links, but that's not working for me in Windows. I'm running GNU Emacs 23.1.1, and have tried cygwin-mount and w32-symlink...

elisp compile, add a regexp to error detection

I am starting with emacs, and don't know much elisp. Nearly nothing, really. I want to use ack as a replacement of grep. These are the instructions I followed to use ack from within emacs: http://www.rooijan.za.net/?q=ack_el Now I don't like the output format that is used in this el file, I would like the output to be that of ack --gr...