bug#45765: [PATCH] 28.0.50; Change default-directory before prompting in project-compile

[Dmitry Gutov]

Hi Kevin,

On 10.01.2021 14:57, Kévin Le Gouguec wrote:

> Unlike project-shell-command, project-compile first prompts for a
> command, then binds default-directory and calls compile.  Binding
> default-directory first makes completion work from the project root,
> which is useful for completing on filenames relative to the root, on
> targets from the toplevel Makefile, etc.

Thanks for the report.

> I see three ways to achieve this:
>
> (1) Rewrite project-compile with call-interactively, the way
> project-shell-command is written (see patch #1).
>
> (2) Set COMMAND to nil in the interactive spec, then prompt for it after
> binding default-directory (see patch #2).
>
> (3) Let-binding default-directory once in the interactive spec, and
> again before calling compile.
> I'm assuming (1) is out of the question, given 2020-06-02
> "* lisp/progmodes/project.el (project-vc-dir, project-shell): New
> commands." (2c1e5b9e77).  I'm CC'ing Juri to get his opinion though;
> project-compile is new in Emacs 28.1, so its argument list is not yet
> set in stone.

I see no strong reason to avoid (1), this new command has never seen an 
Emacs release, so we're not bound by compatibility promise yet.

Further, any code that would be calling project-compile in a program 
should inline its definition instead, in most of the cases.

Let's see what people think, of course.