Re: Passing current buffer to compile command

["Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>]

duke <sidney.reilley.ii@gmail.com> writes:

> How do I do that? 

That's not possible.  Buffers are not accessible from external commands.

You could render them accessible on some system.  For that, you would
have to write a virtual file system, mount it on your host, so that
external commands could open a virtual file whose content would be the
buffer contents.


> I'm not using make, but another compiler. So I need to pass a
> filename.  

Yes.   The problem is that buffers don't have file names.   Some buffers
have a file, and files have file names, but not all buffers have an
associated file, so you cannot do that, in general.


> Instead of inputing the filename, how do I pass
> the current buffer file name? %f ?

What file name?



Once you get a clearer picture in your mind, you may use M-x apropos RET
to find the function you need.


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