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: Converting from compile-internal to compilation-start Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:04:44 -0700 Message-ID: References: <6aed703c-e4b2-4d29-b0c1-39566f33196f@n33g2000pri.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1231556697 7291 80.91.229.12 (10 Jan 2009 03:04:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 03:04:57 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 10 04:06:09 2009 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 1LLUAj-0007e2-J3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 04:06:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48088 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LLU9T-0002D9-P4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:04:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LLU99-0002C0-6g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:04:23 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LLU97-0002Bo-M8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:04:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50182 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LLU97-0002Bl-Ho for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:04:21 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:39136 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 1LLU96-0004nX-Pl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:04:21 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LLU96-0005NG-Fr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 03:04:20 +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 ; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 03:04:20 +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 ; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 03:04:20 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 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 2.0.0.19 (Macintosh/20081209) In-Reply-To: <6aed703c-e4b2-4d29-b0c1-39566f33196f@n33g2000pri.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:61235 Archived-At: 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