[matthavener]

yeah, I'm thinking this might be more useful for c++ :)

[chancho]

In the meantime before clang fully supports C++ I would appreciate a flag for GCC that just gives me abbreviated error info:

    file.cpp:65: error: please have a look at this line and see if anything jumps out at you.

as that is basically all GCC C++ errors are good for.

[nitrogen]

Something like this might work:

   g++ [options] | sed -e 's/^(.*: (error|warning):).*/\1 please have a look at this line and see if anything jumps out at you/'

[j_baker]

I wouldn't hold out for any miracles. I think that there are several aspects of the language itself that will make improving error messages difficult. In particular, template error messages are probably without much hope.