Re: Emacs users a dying breed?

[notbob]

On 2012-06-21, Ken Goldman <kgoldman@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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.

OK.  I'll risk looking stupid one more time.  ;)

What, exactly, is this "Makefile"?

nb

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