Re: running the new exporter asynchronously?

[Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>]

Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org> writes:

> Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> In the interim it, one solution which I personally like for large
>> projects is to offload compilation into an external batch Emacs process.
>> I find this not only useful for compilation while working, but if you
>> place all relevant config into an init.el file loaded by the batch
>> Emacs, this also makes it possible to share and compile the project
>> separate of your personal Emacs config.
>>
>> Attached is a bare-bones Makefile supporting this sort of work-flow.
>
> This is really neat, thanks a lot! I'll definitely use this for my next
> course.
>

Good to hear.

>
> Do you use a shell to run make or do you call it directly from emacs?
>

I always have a shell open, so I generally prefer to run from there.
You could also just run "M-x compile", which runs make asynchronously
and presents the output in a useful format.

Cheers,

>
> Alan

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