Re: Converting from compile-internal to compilation-start

[Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>]

kidologie wrote:
> Hmm had problems:
> compilation-buffer-name: Wrong number of arguments: #[nil "À‡" ["rt-
> nits"] 1 "rt-nits"], 1
> 
> I did:
> 
>   (compilation-start (concat "/auto/eigrp/bin/nits -emacs " command)
> 		    nil #'(lambda (mode-name) "*rt-nits*"))
> 
> And that worked fine - I just pulled it as an example from the emacs
> source - without understanding why it's happy.

Oops, sorry for forgetting the mode-name argument.

> Which brings me to another point with the new compilation-start - why
> am I forced to enter a mode - as in your example - 'grep-mode? In my
> cases I'm just kicking off a unix script under the covers and it
> doesn't below to any particular mode..

The mode defines the regexp-alist used to match errors/hits/whatever you
want to navigate to via C-x `.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA