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- Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!ames!olivea!veritas!joshua
- From: joshua@Veritas.COM (Joshua Levy)
- Newsgroups: comp.emacs
- Subject: optimistic compiling
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.230204.1329@Veritas.COM>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 23:02:04 GMT
- Organization: VERITAS Software
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- I want to try implmenting "optimistic compiling" with emacs.
-
- Optimistic compiling is simple: everytime an editor saves a .c
- file, it forks a job to compile it in the background. If a
- previous job is compiling the same file, it is killed first.
-
- The idea is this: if you modify several .c files, all but the
- last one will be .o files by the time you hit the main make
- command. This assumes you are working on a machine which can
- compile and edit without slowing down the edits much.
-
- Any ideas how to do this? I know the raw materials are in there
- somewhere, because the compile command does some of what I want.
- I just want it to automatically fire when I save a file, and I
- need to change the command line slightly based on the file being
- saved.
-
- I use emacs 18.59, which I've never modified or customized.
- Any ideas on how to start?
-
- Joshua Levy (joshua@veritas.com) 408-727-1222x253
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