Re: compile.el: kill always anyway

[Kevin Rodgers]

Dan Jacobson wrote:

> > > I see there is no option to turn this question off:
> > > (yes-or-no-p
> > > (format "A %s process is running; kill it? "
>
> K> Good.
>
> Bad, because one might be rapid prototyping (compile "sleep 55555"),
> and would like emacs to kill each former compile without asking, as
> whih PID to kill only emacs knows best.

Sigh.

*** emacs-21.3/lisp/progmodes/compile.el.orig   Fri Jan 17 06:45:11 2003
--- emacs-21.3/lisp/progmodes/compile.el        Fri Jan 30 15:51:16 2004
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*** 706,711 ****
--- 706,719 ----
    :version "20.3"
    :group 'compilation)

+ (defcustom compile-kill-running-process nil
+   "*If non-nil, \\[compile] kills a running compilation process without 
asking.
+
+ This also affects \\[recompile], \\[grep], \\[revert-buffer] in a
+ compilation buffer, and any other commands that call `compile-internal'."
+   :type 'boolean
+   :group 'compilation)
+
  (defun compile-internal (command error-message
  		 
	 &optional name-of-mode parser
  		 
	 error-regexp-alist name-function
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*** 744,749 ****
--- 752,758 ----
        (let ((comp-proc (get-buffer-process (current-buffer))))
        (if comp-proc
            (if (or (not (eq (process-status comp-proc) 'run))
+                     compile-kill-running-process
                    (yes-or-no-p
                     (format "A %s process is running; kill it? "
                             name-of-mode)))

--
Kevin Rodgers