From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Making M-X compile cache compile command across sessions? Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 17:30:54 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138519765 30217 80.91.229.2 (29 Jan 2006 07:29:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 07:29:25 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 29 08:29:23 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 1F36zu-0007Zs-71 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Jan 2006 08:29:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F372n-0008BM-TU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Jan 2006 02:32:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F31yN-0002Dq-M9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 21:07:24 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F31ot-00084b-Jw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 20:57:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F2wLu-0000jZ-V3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 15:07:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1F2e2A-0004xX-MY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 19:33:42 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1F2dzo-0000D7-ID for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 01:31:16 +0100 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.60 ([207.167.42.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 01:31:16 +0100 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 01:31:16 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.60 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: 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:32889 Archived-At: 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