Re: Multiple *compilation* buffers

In article <mailman.2629.1225547112.25473.help-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>,
Kevin Rodgers  <kevin.d.rodgers <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>Peter Dyballa wrote:
>> 
>> Am 31.10.2008 um 11:23 schrieb John Paul Foster:
>> 
>>> I dont want to ^ever^ leave emacs so is there a way to run multiple grep
>>> and/or compilation processes at once?
>> 
>> 
>> Does it work to invoke each function with the universal argument C-u ?
>
>Probably not, `C-h f grep' says:
>
>	A prefix argument says to default the argument based upon the current
>	tag the cursor is over, substituting it into the last grep command
>	in the grep command history (or into `grep-command'
>	if that history list is empty).
>
>-- 
>Kevin Rodgers
>Denver, Colorado, USA

What I do is simply M-x rename-buffer to *grep--<its purpose>*.

You can end up with several of them.

David

One trick I especially like is to, BY HAND, do eg