On compilation mode and friends

[Angelo Graziosi]

Usually, modern IDEs have a key-combination to start the build of a 
program (for example, foo.c), then a key-combination to start the 
program (if the build finishes without errors).

Now Emacs has M-x compile (or recompile) to start the build but: what 
about to start the program? The only solution is to run ./foo in a shell 
 or similar?

Besides a key-combination to start the program, perhaps Emacs should 
have also an equivalent icon in the 'compilation' buffer.


Cheers,
   Angelo.

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Tu proverai si' come sa di sale
lo pane altrui, e come e' duro calle
lo scendere e 'l salir per l'altrui scale.
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                  DANTE, Paradiso, xvii 58-60