From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Let compilation start in one directory below current one
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:42:13 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <gdrcm5$rl$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8b8d780e-1e7f-4b91-b325-a17a2e176bec@u46g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>
stephan.zimmer wrote:
>> There is no such variable defined or referenced in compile.el.
>
> Sorry, I meant "compilation-directory". Hopefully, this hasn't created
> too much confusion.
>
>> As far as I know, setting compile-command to "cd .." first is the right
>> way to do it.
>
> That basically does the job, but then I cannot use the links in the
> compilation output to open the files by clicking on them. My hope was
> that this is enabled if 'compilation-directory is set correctly.
> Furthermore, the "cd.." construction is not really handy.
>
> Maybe, let me generalize my question a bit: Is there any way to use an
> elisp function in a local variable specification?
Use the eval pseudo-variable.
--
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-24 2:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-22 11:51 Let compilation start in one directory below current one stephan.zimmer
2008-10-22 20:16 ` Rupert Swarbrick
2008-10-23 8:11 ` Kevin Rodgers
[not found] ` <mailman.1883.1224749504.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-23 8:44 ` Andreas Politz
2008-10-23 14:23 ` stephan.zimmer
2008-10-24 2:42 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2008-10-23 15:58 ` Dan Espen
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