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Re: compile mode and $EMACS
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Sebastian Wiesner |
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Re: compile mode and $EMACS |
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Sun, 11 Aug 2013 14:42:55 +0200 |
2013/8/11 Pascal J. Bourguignon <address@hidden>:
> Sebastian Wiesner <address@hidden> writes:
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>> Hello,
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>> I just discovered that compile mode adds "EMACS=t" to the process
>> environment (see "compilation-start").
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>> […] How is it supposed to be interpreted by the invoked program? […]
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> Some compilers may have different error message output formats depending
> on whether they're run INSIDE_EMACS or not.
Which ones? Can you name *concrete* examples?
> For example, ant has the -e option to output emacs friendly formatted
> error messages.
Yes, uhm, that's an explicit option to enable Emacs-friendly
formatting. Many tools have those. But I see no $EMACS variable
involved here…