Re: auto complile the C program in the current buffer

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

GVK wrote:
 > Kevin Rodgers wrote:
 >> `C-h v compile-command' has that very example.
 >
 > compile-command's value is "gcc "
 >
 > Documentation:
 > not documented as a variable.

I don't know how you could have deleted compile-command's doc string,
but in `emacs-21.3 -q --no-site-file -l compile`:

compile-command's value is "make -k "

Documentation:
*Last shell command used to do a compilation; default for next compilation.

Sometimes it is useful for files to supply local values for this variable.
You might also use mode hooks to specify it in certain modes, like this:

     (add-hook 'c-mode-hook
        (lambda ()
	 (unless (or (file-exists-p "makefile")
		     (file-exists-p "Makefile"))
	   (set (make-local-variable 'compile-command)
		(concat "make -k "
		        (file-name-sans-extension buffer-file-name))))))

You can customize this variable.

Defined in `compile'.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers