Re: how to embed the current buffer name into the compile-comand

Re: how to embed the current buffer name into the compile-comand

[sunway]

On 8 3 ,   1 00 , moonrie <moon...@gmail.com> wrote:
> i have got my compile-command like *g++ -Wall a.cpp && ./a.out",
> however, if i am coding b.cpp, i gotta change it from a.cpp to b.cpp.
>
> so, can emacs do this itself, when i invoke the compile command?
>
> thank you in advance.
try:
(setq compile-command (concat (concat "g++ -Wall " (buffer-file-name))
" &&./a.out"))

Re: how to embed the current buffer name into the compile-comand

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: sunway <sunwayforever@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 18:03:28 -0700
> 
> (setq compile-command (concat (concat "g++ -Wall " (buffer-file-name))
> " &&./a.out"))

There's no need for nested `concat' invocations: `concat' accepts any
number of arguments, not just 2.

See the doc string of `concat' for more details.