Re: Making M-X compile cache compile command across sessions?

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

Roy Smith wrote:
> I'm working in a system which has longish compile commands, for
> example, "cd /work/smithr/sandbox/B-IC-6-2/smarts/clsapi; gmake
> BV=SUFFIX=V65".

`M-x recompile' is your friend.

> It's a pain to type all this every time I start up a new emacs
> session.  I know I can setq compile-command in my .emacs file, but
> that's a little too static.  It would be cool if emacs wrote the last
> compile command I used out to a file so it has a persistant cache
> across emacs sessions.  Any way to make it do that?
> 
> I'm using GNU Emacs 21.3.1.

Perhaps the Desktop library (documented in the "Saving Emacs Sessions"
node of the Emacs manual) will do the trick, once compile-command has
been added to desktop-globals-to-save.

Desktop probably does more than you want, though, so maybe you'll want
to set desktop-buffers-not-to-save and/or desktop-files-not-to-save to
".*".

Or you could roll your own kill-emacs-hook that writes
(setq compile-command "...")
to ~/compile-command.el, and have ~/.emacs automatically load
"~/compile-command".

-- 
Kevin Rodgers