Re: recompile uses wrong buffer.. hint

[Juri Linkov]

"Stephan Stahl" <address@hidden> writes:
> I tried to find a solution to this problem and at least found what was
> causing this strange behaviour.
>
> The function `compilation-buffer-name' tries to get a name for the
> compilation buffer. There is a test:
>       ((and (eq major-mode 'compilation-mode)
>             (equal mode-name (nth 2 compilation-arguments)))
>        (buffer-name))
> that equal will (always?) return nil because the structure of
> compilation-arguments has changed in the recent compile.el rewrite.
> Because of this the function will always return a default name. Maybe its
> sufficient to remove that equal but i'm not sure..

Removing `equal' and thus leaving only `(eq major-mode 'compilation-mode)'
doesn't work for grep mode.  I think the right condition should be:

        ((eq major-mode (nth 1 compilation-arguments))
         (buffer-name))

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Juri Linkov
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