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Makeshift : Selects the right 'makeprg' for your build system

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created by
Pete Johns
 
script type
utility
 
description
INTRODUCTION

You'll want to use this plugin if you work on a lot of projects with different build systems (Ant, BJam, Make, Maven, Scons, et cetera). You want your editor to be able to detect your current build system and set 'makeprg' accordingly.

To make building really fast, bind the :make command to a function key in your vimrc.


    nnoremap    <F5>   :<C-U>make<CR>

HOW IT WORKS

This plug-in works by looking for known build files in the current working directory upwards, and sets |'makeprg'|; by default this happens on start-up.

You can use the command to re-evaluate |'makeprg'|.

    :Makeshift


SETTINGS

To prevent Makeshift from setting |'makeprg'| on start-up, put the following in your |vimrc|.

    let g:makeshift_on_startup = 0

To prevent Makeshift from setting |'makeprg'| on |BufRead|, put the following in your |vimrc|.

    let g:makeshift_on_bufread = 0



BUILD SYSTEMS

Makshift currently associates the following files with their build systems:

    * Jamfile: bjam
    * Makefile: make
    * Rakefile: rake
    * SConstruct: scons
    * build.xml: ant
    * pom.xml: mvn


ADDING A NEW BUILD SYSTEM

If Makeshift doesn't already know about your build system, or you wish to override the default program for a given file, you can define a dictionary, which has filenames as keys and corresponding programs as values.

    let g:makeshift_systems = {
        \'build.ninja ': 'ninja',
        \}


REMOVING A BUILD SYSTEM

If you don't want Makeshift to set |'makeprg'| for a given build system, you can disable it by defining a list of the files to ignore.

    let g:makeshift_ignored = ['Jamfile']


ABOUT

Makeshift was written by Pete Johns. You can contact him via http://johnsy.com/ or on Twitter where he masquerades as @johnsyweb.

You can grab the latest version of this plugin, submit an improvement or report a bug on GitHub:

    http://github.com/johnsyweb/vim-makeshift/


LICENSE

Makeshift is licensed under the same terms as Vim itself (see :help license).
 
install details
I recommend installing pathogen.vim (vimscript#2332), and then simply copy and paste:

    cd ~/.vim/bundle
    git clone git://github.com/johnsyweb/vim-makeshift.git

Restart Vim and then:

    :Helptags

Once help tags have been generated, you can view the manual with

    :help makeshift

Alternatively, just unzip the file into your 'runtimepath' and run :helptags.
 

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package script version date Vim version user release notes
vim-makeshift-0.6.zip 0.6 2013-05-18 7.0 Pete Johns 13d7f84 makeshift_define_command works around issue #2
8c6361a Admit issue
3d36530 Tidy whitespace
vim-makeshift-0.4.zip 0.4 2012-11-25 7.0 Pete Johns * cccc476 - (HEAD, v0.4, origin/master, master) v0.4 (7 minutes ago) <Pete Johns>
* b46c503 - Don't set makeprg=0 if no makefile is found. (7 days ago) <Pete Johns>
johnsyweb-vim-makeshift-v0.3-0-g3ed1848.zip 0.3 2012-10-26 7.0 Pete Johns * 3ed1848 - (HEAD, v0.3, origin/master, master) Bumped version. (5 minutes ago) <Pete Johns>
* ce66a04 - Automatic re-evaluation on BufRead (4 days ago) <Pete Johns>
* 336dfe1 - Dig upwards for build system (4 days ago) <Pete Johns>
makeshift.zip 0.2 2012-10-22 7.0 Pete Johns Issue #1: CMake does not generate a Makefile
makeshift.zip 0.1 2012-10-21 7.0 Pete Johns Initial upload
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