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Reduce the lines required for the project error reports #11092

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@philderbeast

Could we reduce the lines required for the error reports? Perhaps lead with the error line and append the error code and problem description the way GHC does it?

[ 37 of 150] Compiling Distribution.Types.DumpBuildInfo ( src/Distribution/Types/DumpBuildInfo.hs, interpreted ) [Source file changed]
src/Distribution/Types/DumpBuildInfo.hs:25:31: error: [GHC-88464]
    Variable not in scope: boolean :: Bool
   |
25 | boolToDumpBuildInfo bool = if boolean then DumpBuildInfo else NoDumpBuildInfo
   |                               ^^^^^^^

Originally posted by @philderbeast in #8889 (comment)

That would give us:

cyclical-0-self.project:3:1: error: [Cabal-7090]
  cyclical import of cyclical-0-self.project;
    cyclical-0-self.project
      imported by: cyclical-0-self.project

  1 | packages: .
  2 | 
  3 | import: cyclical-0-self.project
    | ^

Do we even need to say that we found the problem while parsing?

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