diff --git a/rc/base/lint.kak b/rc/base/lint.kak
index 339b627f..acaf993c 100644
--- a/rc/base/lint.kak
+++ b/rc/base/lint.kak
@@ -41,10 +41,10 @@ def lint -docstring 'Parse the current buffer with a linter' %{
                 }
             }
             /:[0-9]+:[0-9]+:/ {
-                errors = errors $2 "," $3 ",c" $3 " " substr($4,2) ":"
+                errors = errors $2 "," $3 "," substr($4,2) ":"
                 # fix case where $5 is not the last field because of extra :s in the message
                 for (i=5; i<=NF; i++) errors = errors $i ":"
-                errors = substr(errors, 1, length(errors)-1) "\n"
+                errors = substr(errors, 1, length(errors)-1) " (col " $3 ")\n"
             }
             END {
                 print "set \"buffer=" file "\" lint_flags  %{" stamp ":" substr(flags,  1, length(flags)-1)  "}"