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From: Burton Samograd <kruhft@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: opening correct source file on compile error
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 06:46:30 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871woxubix.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1161691452.114001.151070@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com

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.

-- 
burton samograd                                             kruhft .at. gmail
    generative a/v artwork : http://kruhft.boldlygoingnowhere.org

  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-24 12:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-18 16:08 opening correct source file on compile error kl.vanw
2006-10-19 16:14 ` Kevin Rodgers
     [not found] ` <mailman.98.1161274520.2130.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-10-20 14:00   ` kl.vanw
2006-10-23 16:15     ` Kevin Rodgers
     [not found]     ` <mailman.162.1161620177.27805.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-10-24 12:04       ` kl.vanw
2006-10-24 12:46         ` Burton Samograd [this message]
2006-10-24 14:10           ` kl.vanw
2006-10-24 22:31             ` Burton Samograd
2006-10-24 21:53         ` Kevin Rodgers
     [not found]         ` <mailman.216.1161726966.27805.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-10-25 11:41           ` kl.vanw
2006-10-23 17:29   ` Ushnish Basu
2006-10-23 20:07     ` Kevin Rodgers
     [not found]     ` <mailman.175.1161634161.27805.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-10-23 22:23       ` Ushnish Basu

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