Re: Emacs users a dying breed?

[rusi]

On Jun 22, 12:34 am, Ken Goldman <kgold...@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> On 6/18/2012 3:25 PM, notbob wrote:
>
> > On 2012-06-18, Pascal J. Bourguignon<p...@informatimago.com>  wrote:
>
> >> Since you probably don't have a Makefile in the same directory as pgm.c,
> >> the default rules will be used, so pgm will be built from pgm.c using
> >> the C compiler.
>
> > Thanks, Pascal.  Since I use Slackware, which has jes about everything
> > needed for compiling from source, I'll give it a try.  Both make and gcc 
> > are in
> > the same /usr/bin/ dir.
>
> I think Pascal was saying that you Makefile (not /usr/bin/make) might
> not be in the same directory as your code.
>
> If you don't have a makefile there, you can also do 'make -f
> pathtomakefile' and emacs will remember it for the next time.

Or simply backspace over the make -k and type gcc for one-off
compilations where a makefile is overkill.  If you keep doing that you
can set the emacs variable compile-command but then writing a makefile
is probably a better idea.

>
> If you don't have a makefile at all, it's time to create one.
>
> Bonus:  Check out M-x next-error.  I have both compile and next-error
> bound to Fn keys since I use them constantly.