damerell@NSS.CS.UCL.AC.UK (Dr R M Damerell, RHBNC) (04/16/89)
(SUN 3/60, SUN-OS 3.5, Emacs 18.50, Emacstool and (setq sun-esc-bracket t) ) 1. Tried to compile an (erroneous) file of Emacs Lisp with M-X load-file. I get an error message with nothing to show where in the file the error was detected. I feel sure there must be some technique for locating syntax errors in files, or it would be impossible to do any serious programming. I cannot find it in the manual, please could somebody tell me what it is? 2. Tried to compile a Pascal program (also erroneous) with M-X compile. The next-error command does not work, I assume that this is because the format of pc error messages differs from that of cc , and that compilation-error-regexp does not match these. 3. It would be useful to have a command like compile-this-buffer which could call the right compiler (and the right error-regexp) I believe that nearly all our colleagues here (and students) are programmers in a very modest way, and tend to work on a basis of one-file-per-program so we need a compile command that makes just the one file instead of trying to make everything. Mark