From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu>
Cc: ehud@unix.mvs.co.il, wgh@askme.ok, henrik+news@enberg.org,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: M-x compile for different file extensions
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 15:52:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200210201952.g9KJqnx12700@rum.cs.yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E183JQR-0005QH-00@fencepost.gnu.org
> I have enhanced the Emacs `compile' package with some commands.
>
> 1. Automatic selection of compile commands according to the file
> extension and DEBUG state. (defuns: `compile-main', `compile-sub',
> `compile-debug-toggle')
>
> The debugging feature could make sense, but why isn't `make -k' a good
> default regardless of the kind of file? In other words, why isn't
> "You should write a proper makefile" a good solution for this?
I have missed the orinal post, where was it ?
[ was it in gnu.emacs.bug ? My gnu.emacs.bug newsgroup has been empty
for a while now. ]
> 4. An easy way to interact (send input to) with the compilation process
> (`compile-send-to-process').
>
> This indeed is something important.
>
> It is sort of unfortunate that we have the conflict between two
> meanings we would like RET to have in the compilation buffer: "visit
> the source code for a particular error message", and "send a line of
> input". We have used it for the former ever since that convention
> existed in Emacs (several years ago), but would it be better to use
> it for the latter instead?
We could probably let RET do something like
(if (eobp) (send-to-process) (goto-error))
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-20 19:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-19 17:41 M-x compile for different file extensions wgh
2002-10-19 18:23 ` Henrik Enberg
2002-10-20 0:00 ` Ehud Karni
2002-10-20 16:59 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-20 18:07 ` Ehud Karni
2002-10-20 19:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-10-22 3:12 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-22 6:46 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-10-22 17:17 ` Kevin Rodgers
2002-10-22 19:03 ` Ehud Karni
2002-10-23 7:11 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-22 18:23 ` Ehud Karni
2002-10-23 7:10 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-20 19:52 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2002-10-20 22:05 ` Ehud Karni
2002-10-22 3:12 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-21 18:40 ` kgold
2002-10-22 5:33 ` James Cozine
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