Re: project-compilation-buffer-name-function and recompile

[Jörg Bornemann]

On 1/19/24 01:45, Dmitry Gutov wrote:

> Alternatively, you could add around-advice to recompile which would 
> temporarily bind compilation-buffer-file-name-function.

Nice, thanks for the suggestion!

> > Although I'm thinking by now that it might be more consistent to have 
> > a separate project-recompile command in addition to
> > recompile.  What do you think?
>
> The command could look like this:
>
>    (defun project-recompile (&optional edit-command)
>      (interactive "P")
>      (let ((compilation-buffer-name-function 
> project-compilation-buffer-name-function ))
>        (recompile edit-command)))
>
> It probably doesn't deserve a default key binding in project-prefix-map, 
> but you could the same way to invoke it as you did with 'recompile'.

FWIW, I've filed this - as suggested by Eli - as bug#68570.

I agree that project-recompile wouldn't deserve a default key binding
since recompile doesn't have one.

> TBF, whenever I need to do a recompile-y action, I usually switch to the 
> corresponding compilation buffer and press 'g'. That usually has the 
> same effect and doesn't require remembering an extra command.

That also works.  It seems to be a common suggestion (for example [1])
though to key-bind recompile instead of switching to the compilation
buffer first.


Cheers,

Joerg

[1] https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/compiling-running-scripts-emacs