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authorNoam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>2017-01-04 19:35:04 -0500
committerNoam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>2017-01-07 09:30:00 -0500
commitfc38671988d2d9c3ddb865bdc3a44e827fdb23ed (patch)
tree607be511a9e4cd78ab594dfc695733bf7c7b4750
parentee65d858c7ace0656ea40808a8485e7faae884d7 (diff)
downloademacs-fc38671988d2d9c3ddb865bdc3a44e827fdb23ed.tar.gz
Add helpful comment to compile-command's docstring
* lisp/progmodes/compile.el (compile-command): Mention trailing space in docstring (Bug#25337).
-rw-r--r--lisp/progmodes/compile.el4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/progmodes/compile.el b/lisp/progmodes/compile.el
index e62e017aa0a..0cb3f3bfddd 100644
--- a/lisp/progmodes/compile.el
+++ b/lisp/progmodes/compile.el
@@ -680,7 +680,9 @@ You might also use mode hooks to specify it in certain modes, like this:
(concat \"make -k \"
(if buffer-file-name
(shell-quote-argument
- (file-name-sans-extension buffer-file-name))))))))"
+ (file-name-sans-extension buffer-file-name))))))))
+
+It's often useful to leave a space at the end of the value."
:type 'string
:group 'compilation)
;;;###autoload(put 'compile-command 'safe-local-variable (lambda (a) (and (stringp a) (or (not (boundp 'compilation-read-command)) compilation-read-command))))