On compilation mode and friends

On compilation mode and friends

[Angelo Graziosi]

Usually, modern IDEs have a key-combination to start the build of a 
program (for example, foo.c), then a key-combination to start the 
program (if the build finishes without errors).

Now Emacs has M-x compile (or recompile) to start the build but: what 
about to start the program? The only solution is to run ./foo in a shell 
  or similar?

Besides a key-combination to start the program, perhaps Emacs should 
have also an equivalent icon in the 'compilation' buffer.


Cheers,
    Angelo.

---
Tu proverai si' come sa di sale
lo pane altrui, e come e' duro calle
lo scendere e 'l salir per l'altrui scale.
.
                   DANTE, Paradiso, xvii 58-60

Re: On compilation mode and friends

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

Tried using shell-command (bound to M-!)?

Re: On compilation mode and friends

[Angelo Graziosi]

Alfred M. Szmidt ha scritto:
> Tried using shell-command (bound to M-!)?

This isn't exactly what I asked for.

Your suggestion could be OK in case of applications which do not require 
introducing input.

Suppose the program is

$ cat hello.F95
program hello
   implicit none
   integer :: i
   print *, 'i = '
   read *,i
   print *,i
   print *,'Hello World!'
end program hello

then

M-! ./hello

fails printing:

At line 5 of file hello.F95 (unit = 5, file = 'stdin')
Fortran runtime error: End of file
  i =


Cheers,
    Angelo.

Re: On compilation mode and friends

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:21:33 +0200
> From: Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> Alfred M. Szmidt ha scritto:
> > Tried using shell-command (bound to M-!)?
> 
> This isn't exactly what I asked for.
> 
> Your suggestion could be OK in case of applications which do not require 
> introducing input.
> 
> Suppose the program is
> 
> $ cat hello.F95
> program hello
>    implicit none
>    integer :: i
>    print *, 'i = '
>    read *,i
>    print *,i
>    print *,'Hello World!'
> end program hello
> 
> then
> 
> M-! ./hello
> 
> fails printing:
> 
> At line 5 of file hello.F95 (unit = 5, file = 'stdin')
> Fortran runtime error: End of file
>   i =

I think you want "M-x shell RET" or "M-x term RET", and then run the
program as if from the shell prompt.