From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: compile perl file, specify current buffer, using help effectively Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 01:12:38 -0400 Organization: Bell Sympatico Message-ID: <87mzdzd754.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1146634859 2321 80.91.229.2 (3 May 2006 05:40:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 05:40:59 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 03 07:40:58 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 1FbA6Z-00033j-CG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 May 2006 07:40:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FbA6Y-0000L8-RS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 May 2006 01:40:54 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns14feed!worldnet.att.net!207.35.177.252!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:3VFhAQ9K4wmsbpKqiPEfZBsqNjk= Original-Lines: 14 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.53.194.38 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca Original-X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1146633158 70.53.194.38 (Wed, 03 May 2006 01:12:38 EDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 01:12:38 EDT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:139138 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:34761 Archived-At: > I am trying to use emacs as an IDE for perl development. I think it > would be useful to have a compile command that runs perl on the > current buffer I am editing. The compile command defaults to make -k. > I want to change it to perl xx where xx is the name of the current > buffer - is there some variable or special syntax I can use to get the > current filename? More important then the answer, is how do I figure > this out from the help. Try C-h f compile RET (which will give you the online doc about the `compile' command). It comes with an example of exactly what you want to do. Stefan