On Sun, 26 Jan 2020 at 18:11, John Kitchin <jkitc...@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> This is only semi-on-topic. I am looking for something like M-x compile
> for my org-files, but I don't want it to necessarily use Makefiles. I am
> looking for suggestions of existing solutions to this, or thoughts on how
> to implement this.
>
> Actually, if it was possible to get M-x compile to run an elisp function
> instead of a make file, it might be all I need, but it looks like it runs
> shell commands.
>
So how about typing "M-: <elisp>" instead of "M-x compile" ? Why involve
other layers when Emacs can directly evaluate elisp?
Best wishes,
Neil
