Question

What I am trying to do seems a very basic stuff, but I can’t find anything about it. I am working on a project built as usual:

project |-- bin |-- inc `-- src 

I would like to make my project using the make command included in Vim. But each time I have to specify :make -C ../. I would prefer, if there is not Makefile file in the current directory, go in the parent directory. I already do that with

set tags+=./tags;/ 

in my .vimrc.

Furthermore, the make is by default ugly. Are there options to add color to make, and allow a direct access to the errors (as in Emacs).

Thanks

Answer 1

The solution of rampion is a first step, but computed on vim load. When I load a multi tab session, the path can be inconsistent from one tab to another.

Here my solution (+ extra with tabnew).

fun! SetMkfile()   let filemk = 'Makefile'   let pathmk = './'   let depth = 1   while depth < 4     if filereadable(pathmk . filemk)       return pathmk     endif     let depth += 1     let pathmk = '../' . pathmk   endwhile   return '.' endf  command! -nargs=* Make tabnew | let $mkpath = SetMkfile() | make <args> -C $mkpath | cwindow 10