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: compile perl file, specify current buffer, using help effectively Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 11:04:46 -0600 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: <87zmhz4ck7.fsf@robotron.kosmorama> 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 1146676086 14560 80.91.229.2 (3 May 2006 17:08:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 17:08:06 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 03 19:08:04 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 1FbKp2-0000Wu-7N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 May 2006 19:07:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FbKp1-0008Sb-Gw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 May 2006 13:07:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FbKop-0008Rv-8D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 May 2006 13:07:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FbKom-0008RV-QG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 May 2006 13:07:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FbKom-0008RR-JW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 May 2006 13:07:16 -0400 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 1FbKpC-0001eS-Kd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 May 2006 13:07:42 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FbKnc-0000Fl-3k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 May 2006 19:06:04 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 03 May 2006 19:06:04 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 03 May 2006 19:06:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 38 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) In-Reply-To: <87zmhz4ck7.fsf@robotron.kosmorama> 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:34778 Archived-At: David Hansen wrote: > On Tue, 2 May 2006 22:04:56 -0400 David Schneider wrote: >> 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. I have been using C-h a to try to search the >> help. This gives me lists of commands or variables which may be >> related - but I frequently find my questions are still unanswered. `C-h a' is for commands. `C-h f' is for functions. `C-h v' is for variables. `C-h v compile-command' has a C mode example that David has converted to Perl mode for you: > Not tested: > > (add-hook 'perl-mode-hook > (lambda () > (set (make-local-variable 'compile-command) > (concat "perl -w " (buffer-file-name))))) > > Anyway i doub't that the compile mode will recognize the > perl errors and warnings. See compilation-error-regexp-alist: ;; Perl -w: ;; syntax error at automake line 922, near "':'" ;; Perl debugging traces ;; store::odrecall('File_A', 'x2') called at store.pm line 90 (".* at \\([^ \n]+\\) line \\([0-9]+\\)[,.\n]" 1 2) -- Kevin