From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Let compilation start in one directory below current one Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:42:13 -0600 Message-ID: References: <8e2e1f23-1bd1-4e4b-b063-4078aa0f079f@v72g2000hsv.googlegroups.com> <8b8d780e-1e7f-4b91-b325-a17a2e176bec@u46g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224816298 1925 80.91.229.12 (24 Oct 2008 02:44:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:44:58 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 24 04:45:59 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KtCgY-0002tY-Je for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 04:45:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48974 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KtCfS-0005pU-Ua for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:44:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KtCdG-0004je-Ac for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:42:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KtCdC-0004i0-IC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:42:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58009 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KtCdC-0004hv-Di for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:42:30 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:59161 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KtCdC-0006Ds-Ck for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:42:30 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KtCd5-00019x-4I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:42:23 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.161.145.183]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:42:23 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:42:23 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Macintosh/20080914) In-Reply-To: <8b8d780e-1e7f-4b91-b325-a17a2e176bec@u46g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:59111 Archived-At: stephan.zimmer wrote: >> There is no such variable defined or referenced in compile.el. > > Sorry, I meant "compilation-directory". Hopefully, this hasn't created > too much confusion. > >> As far as I know, setting compile-command to "cd .." first is the right >> way to do it. > > That basically does the job, but then I cannot use the links in the > compilation output to open the files by clicking on them. My hope was > that this is enabled if 'compilation-directory is set correctly. > Furthermore, the "cd.." construction is not really handy. > > Maybe, let me generalize my question a bit: Is there any way to use an > elisp function in a local variable specification? Use the eval pseudo-variable. -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA