From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Passing current buffer to compile command Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 22:12:28 +0100 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87tyh85z9f.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1295214046 28904 80.91.229.12 (16 Jan 2011 21:40:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 21:40:46 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 16 22:40:42 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PeaL4-00040J-3Y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 22:40:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40962 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PeaL3-0002wZ-Fh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 16:40:41 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Original-X-Trace: individual.net WhnY9kvS0spp2ITYtmI5NARQ1a46A149k5bLdp5h9IJ9gg3DIv Cancel-Lock: sha1:NzM0ZjUwYWI3MDkzN2JlY2FiNmUzMjY3ZTE2MDQ2MjdmMmNmY2M5NA== sha1:2o4yD38wFta8J/DS4c8+cSCeDsc= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:184320 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:78492 Archived-At: duke writes: > How do I do that? That's not possible. Buffers are not accessible from external commands. You could render them accessible on some system. For that, you would have to write a virtual file system, mount it on your host, so that external commands could open a virtual file whose content would be the buffer contents. > I'm not using make, but another compiler. So I need to pass a > filename. Yes. The problem is that buffers don't have file names. Some buffers have a file, and files have file names, but not all buffers have an associated file, so you cannot do that, in general. > Instead of inputing the filename, how do I pass > the current buffer file name? %f ? What file name? Once you get a clearer picture in your mind, you may use M-x apropos RET to find the function you need. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}.