Re: project-compilation-buffer-name-function and recompile

[Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>]

On 19/01/2024 17:05, Jörg Bornemann wrote:
> On 1/19/24 01:45, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> 
>> Alternatively, you could add around-advice to recompile which would 
>> temporarily bind compilation-buffer-file-name-function.
> 
> Nice, thanks for the suggestion!
> 
>>> Although I'm thinking by now that it might be more consistent to have 
>>> a separate project-recompile command in addition to
>>> recompile.  What do you think?
>>
>> The command could look like this:
>>
>>    (defun project-recompile (&optional edit-command)
>>      (interactive "P")
>>      (let ((compilation-buffer-name-function 
>> project-compilation-buffer-name-function ))
>>        (recompile edit-command)))
>>
>> It probably doesn't deserve a default key binding in 
>> project-prefix-map, but you could the same way to invoke it as you did 
>> with 'recompile'.
> 
> FWIW, I've filed this - as suggested by Eli - as bug#68570.

All right, let's continue there.

> I agree that project-recompile wouldn't deserve a default key binding
> since recompile doesn't have one.
> 
>> TBF, whenever I need to do a recompile-y action, I usually switch to 
>> the corresponding compilation buffer and press 'g'. That usually has 
>> the same effect and doesn't require remembering an extra command.
> 
> That also works.  It seems to be a common suggestion (for example [1])
> though to key-bind recompile instead of switching to the compilation
> buffer first.

I suppose it's a valid preference (otherwise we wouldn't have that 
command, I guess).

> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Joerg
> 
> [1] https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/compiling-running-scripts-emacs