bug#74631: 30.0.92; [PATCH] autoload project-recompile and set default-directory

[Daniel Mendler via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev> writes:

> Hi Daniel,
>
> On 01/12/2024 12:46, Daniel Mendler wrote:
>> In order to make `project-recompile' symmetric to `recompile' it should
>> be autoloaded and it should run in the project root. This makes it
>> possible to call `project-recompile' directly without calling `compile'
>> first.
>>      ;;;###autoload
>>      (defun project-recompile (&optional edit-command)
>>        "Run `recompile' with appropriate buffer."
>>        (declare (interactive-only recompile))
>>        (interactive "P")
>>        (let ((default-directory (project-root (project-current t)))
>>              (compilation-buffer-name-function
>>               (or project-compilation-buffer-name-function
>>                   compilation-buffer-name-function)))
>>          (recompile edit-command)))
>> This change also resolves the comment in project-recompile:
>>      ;; Should we error instead?  When there's no
>>      ;; project-specific naming, there is no point in using
>>      ;; this command.
>
> Thanks, I've pushed this to master.
>
> The comment is related to the previous thread (bug#68570), and it's still
> unresolved, but IIUC this doesn't make things worse, at least.
>
> Cc'ing Juri just in case.

Thanks for installing the patch! I just saw that the docstring should
probably also updated accordingly. Maybe like this:

"Run `recompile' in the project root with an appropriate buffer."

Daniel