Question

I’m working on a compiled project in Vim (Typescript). make % will build an individual file. I use this to check for errors. This is great for error checking, but it creates compiled files next to the source files that I don’t need.

For my actual build process, I have a single command that compiles everything. This is in a Makefile.

I’d like to be able to map a key command to “build my whole project” in a generic way, so if I’m editing any .ts file underneath my project directory, it runs that specific command.

How can I do this?

Answer 1

The trick would be to actually use a Makefile:

all: complete.exe

complete.exe: *.ts
     somecompilation-command $^ -o $@

This way, you can just leave makeprg at ‘make’:

:set makeprg&

And happily do:

:mak