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Guilherme
Guilherme

Reputation: 453

compile inside vim using special cmd

Is there any way for me to define a command (i.e :compile) to compile C/C++ code inside vim? I know I can use :!g++ %:p for that but is really tricky to type all these special characters.

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 154

Answers (2)

Alpaca
Alpaca

Reputation: 707

You can use the :make command in Vim. By default it runs make but you can set the makeprg variable to be whatever program you want.

So for your example.

:set makeprg=g++\ %

and then you can

:make

Upvotes: 3

Amadan
Amadan

Reputation: 198324

You can use :make (or abbreviation :mak) to invoke your Makefile. You can even specify a target (e.g. :mak build). And you can always make a mapping to make it (hehe) easier to invoke.

:help :make

Upvotes: 2

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