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: subsitute for current file name in buffer in emacs Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:35:26 -0700 Message-ID: References: <15109271.post@talk.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1201757760 23385 80.91.229.12 (31 Jan 2008 05:36:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:36:00 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 31 06:36:21 2008 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 4.50) id 1JKS5y-0002wG-Kv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:36:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JKS5X-0003Qb-L8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:35:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JKS5F-0003QV-At for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:35:33 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JKS5D-0003Q8-OA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:35:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JKS5D-0003Q4-LU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:35:31 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JKS5D-0003Sf-85 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:35:31 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JKS57-0004gc-PB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:35:25 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.162.159.170]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:35:25 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:35:25 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Macintosh/20071031) In-Reply-To: <15109271.post@talk.nabble.com> X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:51108 Archived-At: shankarrg wrote: > suppose i need to use the file name which is currently present in buffer > opened before me in emacs .. > > now suppose it is a .cpp file say abc.cpp > > now to compile this file i have to use ...\g++ abc.cpp > > > now instead for putting abc.cpp is there a variable or command which > substitutes itself as the file name in current buffer when used ? Even better, perhaps: (add-hook 'find-file-hook (lambda () (when (string-match "\\.cpp\\'" buffer-file-name) (set (make-local-variable 'compile-command) (format "g++ %s" (file-name-nondirectory buffer-file-name)))))) -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA