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Re: How force command's output to appear in *current* window?


From: Barry Margolin
Subject: Re: How force command's output to appear in *current* window?
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:44:08 -0500
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In article 
<fe2cd046-812c-42ed-ad29-4d5b974c45e7@b41g2000pra.googlegroups.com>,
 "seberino@spawar.navy.mil" <seberino@spawar.navy.mil> wrote:

> On Dec 13, 10:35 pm, Barry Margolin <bar...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> > Call it within save-window-excursion.
> 
> Thanks! Does this work for all commands?  I couldn't get it to work
> for compile.
> 
> I tried
> 
> (save-window-excursion 'compile)
> (save-window-excursion compile)
> (save-window-excursion (compile))
> 
> They all either gave an error or nothing happened.
> 
> cs

You left out the argument to compile.

(save-window-excursion
  (compile compile-command))

will compile with the default compilation command.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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