Re: Making M-X compile cache compile command across sessions?

[Ian Zimmerman <nobrowser@gmail.com>]

Roy> It's a pain to type all this every time I start up a new emacs
Roy> session.  I know I can setq compile-command in my .emacs file, but
Roy> that's a little too static.  It would be cool if emacs wrote the
Roy> last compile command I used out to a file so it has a persistant
Roy> cache across emacs sessions.  Any way to make it do that?

Use the desktop module and 

(add-to-list 'desktop-globals-to-save '(compile-history . 20))

or something similar.

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