tools/tb2err: Formats Lua traceback in errors.err format Manually opening to the files and line numbers from a Lua traceback is tedious. This tool converts tracebacks into a format that many compilers and such tools use, which is also compatible with Vim (and possibly other editors). Thus if someone sends you a pastebin link with a traceback, a command like the following gets you right to the relevant lines: curl paste.example/abc123.txt | tb2err > errors.err; vim -q

author: Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se>
date: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 22:42:43 +0100
child: 13063:414952def2d3
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/tools/tb2err	Wed Oct 28 22:42:43 2020 +0100
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+#!/usr/bin/env lua-any
+-- Lua-Versions: 5.3 5.2 5.1
+-- traceback to errors.err for vim -q
+local path_sep = package.config:sub(1,1);
+for line in io.lines() do
+	local src, err = line:match("%s*(%S+)(:%d+: .*)")
+	if src then
+		src = src:gsub("\\", path_sep);
+		local cut = src:match("/()core/")
+			or src:match("/()net/")
+			or src:match("/()util/")
+			or src:match("/()modules/")
+			or src:match("/()plugins/")
+			or src:match("/()prosody[ctl]*$") 
+		if cut then
+			src = src:sub(cut);
+		end
+		src = src:gsub("^modules/", "plugins/")
+		io.write(src, err, "\n");
+	end
+end