Operation in compilations

[eugeniodilo]

One thing that doesn't seem to be well documented and forces us to experiment to find the best way to get there.
When you run a GnuCOBOL compilation with "Run Build Task," you get:

a. a red or green traffic light on the command line (frankly, it's just a small, barely visible small circle)

b. one or more compiler error messages in the Terminal window.
Frankly, these messages are quite inconvenient to check because they are in a fairly rudimentary format.
And they're in a list in the Terminal window (it is a window with few lines) that requires a lot of scrolling.
Although I've seen that you can click on the message number to access the source line, this is often misleading.
Question: Is it possible to get errors with messages that are inserted directly into the GnuCOBOL source window ?
(as other COBOL VSCode extensions do)

And by the way, can you add in the documentation some instructions indicating what is the most efficient operational way to verify and check the result of a compilation and how to check error messages in the most efficient way ?

[GitMensch]

I highly suggest to install https://open-vsx.org/extension/usernamehw/errorlens which provides:

• Highlight lines containing diagnostics
• Append diagnostic as text to the end of the line
• Show icons in gutter

just by installing it (and you can then configure how all of this is done) along using build tasks with reasonable pattern definitions (which superbol comes with).