Automatic link from log file to source code

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This ticket is a migrated Trac ticket 2926

People contributed to the original ticket: @unknown_contributor, @djmitche
Ticket created on: Oct 06 2014
Ticket last modified on: Oct 07 2014

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Log files often contain references to source code.
(E.g. compiler errors and warnings start with file:line:)

It would be a great help if those could be formatted as HTML links to a source code viewer.

Often the source code is already available online so that just the link has to be generated.
The [[WarningCountingShellCommand]] already tracks the working directory and extracts file name and line number from warnings, so we already have all the information for a proper link.

I propose to add a callback function similar to the 'revlink' config to [[WarningCountingShellCommand]], which returns an URL for a given warning. The generated HTML log file should then include this link.
Extra points when we can support the same for error messages! :-)

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Comment from: @dustin
Date: Oct 06 2014

Cool idea! Does "I propose" mean you're working on this?

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Comment from: @unknown_contributor
Date: Oct 07 2014

Well, I'm interested in this, but I don't know when I can dedicate some time for it.