From 3fce19f17f44f464ce6714d6ddb645a529827c71 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Richard M. Stallman" Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 09:21:52 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] (Compilation): Clarify recompile's directory choice. --- man/building.texi | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/man/building.texi b/man/building.texi index b3c7fa4f2da..99bc20260b2 100644 --- a/man/building.texi +++ b/man/building.texi @@ -117,8 +117,11 @@ that is running. You can also kill the compilation process with @findex recompile To rerun the last compilation with the same command, type @kbd{M-x -recompile}. This automatically reuses the compilation command from the -last invocation of @kbd{M-x compile}. +recompile}. This automatically reuses the compilation command from +the last invocation of @kbd{M-x compile}. It also reuses the +@samp{*compilation*} buffer and starts the compilation in its default +directory, which is the directory in which the previous compilation +was started. Emacs does not expect a compiler process to launch asynchronous subprocesses; if it does, and they keep running after the main -- 2.39.2