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From: "Anthony Milano" <milanoa@clark.net>
To: <ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org>
Subject: RE: Ant and Emacs compilation
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 08:34:28 -0400
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I am currently using approach one, I have to make a modification when I
switch projects.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan Bodewig [mailto:bodewig@bost.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 4:16 AM
> To: ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Ant and Emacs compilation
>
>
> I use the following in my JDE setup in ~/.emacs:
>
> (require 'compile)
> (setq compilation-error-regexp-alist
>       (append (list
>                ;; works for jikes
>
> '("^\\s-*\\[[^]]*\\]\\s-*\\(.+\\):\\([0-9]+\\):\\([0-9]+\\):[0-9]+
> :[0-9]+:" 1 2 3)
>                ;; works for javac
>                ;; thanks to Barrie Treloar <Barrie.Treloar@camtech.com.au>
>                '("^\\s-*\\[[^]]*\\]\\s-*\\(.+\\):\\([0-9]+\\):" 1 2))
>       compilation-error-regexp-alist))
>
> Both regexps work whether [javac] is present or not, this means the
> first one solves the problem XEmacs has with jikes +E as well.
>
> The jikes version needs to be prepended to the list because the (4bsd
> gnu) regexp seems to match (badly) in XEmacs' compile.el but doesn't
> parse the message correctly.
>
> As for other editors - we probably need a way to not use DefaultLogger
> and add a PlainLogger. While the second is possible, the first one is
> not yet.
>
> On a side note. How are you invoking Ant from JDE?
>
> I'm currently switching between two approaches
>
> (1) an approach Peter Donald has posted to this list, which requires
> me to modify an elisp variable to switch between projects and adds a
> key sequence to jde-mode-map to invoke Ant.
>
> (2) write a shell script in each directory that changes the working
> dir to my projects basedir, invokes ant with the arguments I might
> have supplied and changes back the directory. Say "compile using make"
> and set the compilation command to the name of my shell script.
>
> I'm not thrilled by each of these ways.
>
> Stefan
>