Re: Add M-x occur to the menu-bar

[Stefan Monnier]

> I'd prefer the default be to use whichever one (compilation, grep,
> occur) was launched most recently.  Sometimes I have really old
> compile buffers laying around (I never kill them typically).  And I
> wouldn't want the presence of those old compilation buffers to mean
> that I couldn't use this cool new 'C-x `' functionality for the M-x
> occur I just ran a second ago.  I don't usually kill *grep* buffers
> either.

`compile' and `grep' already do that.

> In order to accomplish this, probably M-x compile, M-x occur and M-x
> grep would have to set some variable like `next-error-follow-command'
> to 'compile, 'occur or 'grep, respectively, inside those function
> definitions.

The variable already exists and is called `compilation-last-buffer'.


        Stefan