On Mon, Oct 17, 2016, Luis Henriquez-Perez wrote:
> On Monday, October 17, 2016 at 6:08:35 PM UTC-4, Luis Henriquez-Perez wrote:
> > I am using vim to code my java projects. I've been noticing I've been 
> > jumping back to the terminal a lot to compile and run my code. So I want to 
> > create a function that does all this for me (and gets rid of the class 
> > files afterwards). The code below is my attempt. Could someone let me know 
> > how I can fix my code?
> > 
> > func! CompileFolderJava()
> > 
> >     " compile all java files in folder of the current buffer
> >     :!javac "%:p:h" . "/*.java"       "  javac 
> > path/name/to/current/buffer/directory/*.java
> > 
> > 
> >     " run Main java file in that folder
> >     :!java "%:p:h" . ".Main"            " java 
> > path/name/to/current/buffer/directory.Main
> > 
> >     " delete all the .class files in that folder
> >     :!rm "%:p:h" . ".class"
> > 
> >     " :echo "Done"
> > endfunc
> 
> I managed to get the compiling and the removing to work. For running, I think 
> I have to be in the parent directory of the file. The format needs to be: 
> java ParentDir.Main

Well, what's going wrong with it? I would suggest, though, that instead
of changing directories you use the classpath (-cp) option to tell Java
where to find the Main class. E.g.

    :!java -cp %:p:h Main

> 
> func! CompileFolderJava()
>       " compile all java files in folder
>       :!javac %:p:h/*.java
> 
>       " a java thing I have to be in this directory to call java main
>       :cd ..
>       " run all the java files in folder
>       :!java %:h.Main
> 
>       " delete all the .class files in folder
>       :!rm %:p:h/*.class
> 
>       " :echo "hello"
> endfunc

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        Eric Christopherson

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