From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kl.vanw@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: opening correct source file on compile error Date: 20 Oct 2006 07:00:34 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1161352834.651319.66290@e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.com> 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" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1161373103 9750 80.91.229.2 (20 Oct 2006 19:38:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:38:23 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 20 21:38:22 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 1Gb0CE-0005ra-3N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 21:38:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gb0CD-00040t-Db for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 15:38:21 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.91.67.21 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1161352839 22867 127.0.0.1 (20 Oct 2006 14:00:39 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:00:39 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.com; posting-host=70.91.67.21; posting-account=e41Dwg0AAAB9k2yUEDG97m5ESi2rP9F7 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:142520 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:38145 Archived-At: Kevin Rodgers wrote: > 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 tried that, but it didn't work. I also tried specifing the full paths in the above, but it didn't work either. Did you verify that it works for you?