error message filter for sbt and redirect to 'error' file. In vim call ':cf target/error' or 'set errorfile=target/error' and then call ':cf'.

sbt-error-filter

#!/bin/bash

sbt "$@" | tee >( awk '
BEGIN {
    error_file = "target/error";
}

END {
    system("rm " error_file);
}

{
    gsub(/\033\[[0-9]*m/, "");
}

/^\[info\] Building project/ {
    project_name = $4 "-" $5;
    scala_version = $NF;
}

/^\[info\] Total time/ {
    close(error_file);
    system("sed -i \"/\\[info\\]/d\" " error_file);

    # comment this block if notify-send is unavailable
    error_msg = "\"" project_name " compile fail for " scala_version "\"";
    success_msg = "\"" project_name " compile success for " scala_version "\"";
    system("if [ -s " error_file " ]; then notify-send -i error " error_msg "; else notify-send -i info " success_msg "; fi;");
}

/^\[info\] == compile ==/ {
    inner = !inner;
}

/^\[info\] == test-compile ==/ {
    inner = !inner;
}

inner {
    print  > error_file;
}

')

sbt-without-color

java -Xmx1024M -Dsbt.log.noformat=true -jar `dirname $0`/sbt-launch.jar "$@"

sbt.vim

" Vim Compiler File sbt.vim
" Compiler: sbt

if exists("current_compiler")
  finish
endif
let current_compiler = "sbt"

set makeprg=sbt-without-color\ test-compile
set errorformat=%E[error]\ %f:%l:\ %m,%C[error]\ %p^,%-C%.%#,%Z,
               \%W[warn]\ %f:%l:\ %m,%C[warn]\ %p^,%-C%.%#,%Z,
               \%-G%.%#
set errorfile=target/error