Tip #203: Make make more helpful

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created:		January 27, 2002 6:34		complexity:		basic
author:		Padraic Renaghan		as of Vim:		6.0

I find this a very useful command to use. Add the below 4 lines to your vimrc. Then instead of "make" use "Make". " Command Make will call make and then cwindow which " opens a 3 line error window if any errors are found. " if no errors, it closes any open cwindow. :command -nargs=* Make make <args> | cwindow 3

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Anonymous, January 27, 2002 20:21

great

[email protected], January 29, 2002 6:01

since typing :Make is a bit troublesome compared to :make (which i also find a bit tiresome :)) i have a mapping: :map <Leader>j :Make<cr> then, just hit \j and away you go.

Chad, June 17, 2002 13:59

Great tip. I came to this site looking exactly for this information (like I can remember the errors w/out seeing them :-)). Thanks alot.

[email protected], October 18, 2002 6:17

Chad: with :cc you can see the current error and with :cn and :cp you can switch between the errors. vim even goes to the position in sourcecode where they occured.

[email protected], January 13, 2003 10:14

Does anybody know how to display a complete error message that is too long for the line? By default it inserts ellipsys in the middle of it and only displays the beginning and the end... Thanks a bunch. EZ

[email protected], April 7, 2004 8:38

:clist will display the complete line, unfortuneately it displays every other error as well

[email protected], August 20, 2004 23:54

Hi I am trying to get efm_perl.pl working so that I can compile inside of vim without going to the shell and doing a perl -cw [filename]. I found this efm_perl.pl script that tells me to put these two lines in my vimrc: set makeprg=$HOME/bin/vimparse.pl\ -c\ %\ $* set errorformat=%f:%l:%m I get that. But where is the file fimparse.pl? Or is that just for output? I couldn't find it anywhere. I think I am being stupid. :)




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