Multiple greps and compiles from inside Emacs

Multiple greps and compiles from inside Emacs

[Nordlöw]

Sometimes I would like to spawn multiple grep's and/or compile's from
within Emacs all outputting to separate buffers say

*dirA-compile*
*dirB-compile*
*dirA-grep*
*dirB-grep*

I have searched a bit for the patterns "multi-grep" and "multi-
compile" but with no success.

How can I make this happen?

Thanks,
Nordlöw

Re: Multiple greps and compiles from inside Emacs

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 09.10.2007 um 11:05 schrieb Nordlöw:

> How can I make this happen?

Rename the buffer?

--
Greetings

   Pete

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
      -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.

Re: Multiple greps and compiles from inside Emacs

[Nordlöw]

On 9 Okt, 12:25, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyba...@Web.DE> wrote:
> Am 09.10.2007 um 11:05 schrieb Nordlöw:
>
> > How can I make this happen?
>
> Rename the buffer?
>
> --
> Greetings
>
>    Pete
>
> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
>       -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.

Great! This does what I want for compilation:

(setq compilation-buffer-name-function
      '(lambda (mode)
	 (concat "*" (downcase mode) "-" compilation-directory "*"))
      )

Now I can build stuff (such as new versions of emacs-cvs) in the
background while working on my projects. One case less where I need to
temporarily leave Emacs to do stuff.
grep.el does not contain a similar logic this seems more complicated
to solve.

Nordlöw

Re: Multiple greps and compiles from inside Emacs

[Johan Lindström]

At 12:11 2007-10-09, Nordlöw wrote:
>grep.el does not contain a similar logic this seems more complicated
>to solve.

Well, you can always rename-buffer after the *grep* buffer is created.


/J