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From: Stephen Leake <Stephen.Leake@gsfc.nasa.gov>
Subject: Re: Combining Rational VADS and Emacs
Date: 1999/11/03
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Date: 1999-11-03T00:00:00+00:00
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Jon Klaff <Jon.Klaff@rrds.co.uk> writes:

> We have a directory structure as follows;
> 
> Project
>    Sub-module
>       Edited Files
>       Source Files
> 
> The ideology is that a file is edited in the
> Edited Files directory and then moved into the
> Source Files directory for compilation.

This seems like it will be extremely error-prone. You'll either forget
to copy the edited file (hence your request for a tool), or you'll
start editing in the Source directory.

I suggest you leave the source code in one directory, and use CVS to
manage the version history. See www.cyclic.com for the current CVS
distribution. 

> A makefile
> exists in the Sub-module directory in order to
> make the sub-module (and one in the Project
> directory to do the entire project). I would like
> to be able to automatically copy files from the
> edited files directory into the source files
> directory, move up a directory and run the make
> command from there.

You can easily run make from emacs; see the emacs help on 'compile'.

> and trying to get EMACS to work with it. I do not
> have the first clue where to start though. 

See the general Emacs web site:

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html

there are lots of sources of information on how to use emacs.

-- Stephe