From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kl.vanw@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: opening correct source file on compile error Date: 24 Oct 2006 07:10:46 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1161699046.662015.226520@m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com> References: <1161187727.615995.163760@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> <1161352834.651319.66290@e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.com> <1161691452.114001.151070@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> <871woxubix.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1161700966 16912 80.91.229.2 (24 Oct 2006 14:42:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 14:42:46 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 24 16:42:43 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GcNT3-0001MJ-Gc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 16:41:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GcNT3-0003wg-0e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 10:41:25 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 33 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.91.67.21 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1161699052 14354 127.0.0.1 (24 Oct 2006 14:10:52 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 14:10:52 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <871woxubix.fsf@gmail.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com; posting-host=70.91.67.21; posting-account=e41Dwg0AAAB9k2yUEDG97m5ESi2rP9F7 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:142619 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:38240 Archived-At: Burton Samograd wrote: > kl.vanw@gmail.com writes: > > > Kevin Rodgers wrote: > >> kl.vanw@gmail.com wrote: > >> > Kevin Rodgers wrote: > >> >> kl.vanw@gmail.com wrote: > >> >>> Here's my situation. My header files (C++) are located in a dir named > >> >>> src/lib. These are the files I edit and are CVS managed. When I run > >> >>> 'make', make copies the headers into include/, which my other source > >> >>> files include. Then if there was an error in one of the headers, and I > >> >>> use 'next-error' in the compilation buffer to open the header, emacs > >> >>> opens the file in the include/ directory, but I really need it to open > >> >>> the header in src/lib. Can I some how help emacs find the right > >> >>> file? > > Might variable this help? I was having a similar problem and this > fixed it right up. > > compilation-search-path Variable: > > *List of directories to search for source files named in error > messages. > That certainly sounds like what I need, but it doesn't work for me. I think I've spent too much time on the minor annoyance. Thanks for your help. -- Kevin