Re: Running Programs from Inside Emacs

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

haziz <hsaziz@gmail.com> writes:

> When using emacs for programming in C, I know how to compile programs from 
> inside emacs using Mx compile to invoke make -k which then compiles using gcc 
> (I am running Linux Mint on a desktop machine at home and also use Mac OS X 
> on a laptop). 
>
> I have so far been unable to figure out how to "run" the resulting binary 
> from inside emacs. I would like to be able to then run the binary file from 
> inside emacs. So far I have had to exit emacs returning to my bash shell to 
> run the binary by for e.g.    ./helloworld

For non-interactive programs you can run them after the compilation:

M-x compile RET C-e && ./helloword RET


> Is it possible to get a shell prompt inside emacs and run the file in a 
> secondary buffer within emacs?

M-x shell RET



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