Re: [vile] Error finding

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Paul van Tilburg wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I have a system that watches a LaTeX file and its depends, recompiles
> it when any of the files change (e.g  save in vile) and refreshes
> a preview.
> This works great but, because I'm no longer calling LaTeX from within
> vile, the "error finder" does not work anymore.  However, the
> watch-and-compile system drops an error file when compiling (so when
> editin foo.tex, it creates foo.err).
> My macro skills are still limited, so I wanted to ask you for some
> pointers on how I can pull in the error file and use the error finder as
> I was used to?

It sounds essentially as if you need a macro that loads the file and sets
the error-buffer to it.  Here's a quick try at it - seems to work:

store-procedure layers
        ~local %cbufname
        setv %cbufname $cbufname
        ~quiet edit-file 'foo.err'
        error-buffer 'foo.err'
        buffer %cbufname
~endm

The tinkering with cbufname makes it save/restore the current buffer.

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