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: opening correct source file on compile error Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 14:07:31 -0600 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: <1161187727.615995.163760@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> 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 1161634259 19458 80.91.229.2 (23 Oct 2006 20:10:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:10:59 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 23 22:10:52 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 1Gc681-00029L-TP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:10:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gc681-0000Wd-BG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:10:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gc66p-00085g-Sq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:09:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gc66l-00083V-PV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:09:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gc66l-00083M-EG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:09:15 -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 1Gc66k-0006uN-LC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:09:15 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Gc66O-0001hA-7D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:08:52 +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 ; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:08:52 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:08:52 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 53 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) 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:38217 Archived-At: Ushnish Basu wrote: > Kevin Rodgers writes: > >> kl.vanw@gmail.com wrote: >>> Here's my situation. My header files (C++) are located in a dir named >>> src/lib. These are the files I edit and are CVS managed. When I run >>> 'make', make copies the headers into include/, which my other source >>> files include. Then if there was an error in one of the headers, and I >>> use 'next-error' in the compilation buffer to open the header, emacs >>> opens the file in the include/ directory, but I really need it to open >>> the header in src/lib. Can I some how help emacs find the right file? >>> Unfortunately, I don't have the option of changing the way our makefile >>> works or the #include statements. >> Try this: >> >> (add-hook 'find-file-hook >> (lambda () >> (let* ((file (file-name-nondirectory buffer-file-name)) >> (directory (file-name-directory buffer-file-name)) >> (alternate-file (expand-file-name file "../src/lib"))) >> (when (and (equal (file-name-nondirectory >> (directory-file-name directory)) >> "include") >> (file-exists-p alternate-file)) >> (find-alternate-file alternate-file))))) >> >> -- >> Kevin >> > > I have a similar problem, except that my CVS has *.F files (in say ../src) for > the fortran preprocessor, and make gives me corresponding *.f files in the > current directory. How would one modify the above example for this case? (add-hook 'find-file-hook (lambda () (let* ((file (file-name-nondirectory buffer-file-name)) alternate-file) (when (and (equal (file-name-extension file) "f") (file-exists-p (setq alternate-file (expand-file-name (concat (file-name-sans-extension file) ".F") "../src")))) (find-alternate-file alternate-file))))) > Sorry, I don't understand (e)lisp well enough to do it myself, but I am > planning to learn. You will be greatly rewarded for your efforts! -- Kevin