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From this post here:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/540721/compile-directly-from-vim

One of the answer is:

autocmd filetype cpp nnoremap <F4> :!g++ % -ggdb -o %:r <CR>
autocmd filetype cpp nnoremap<F5> :!g++ % -ggdb -o %:r && ./%:r <CR>

This works. But I would like to have 2 separate function: one for compile only and the other for run only, instead of compiling and run at the same time. So I changed it to this:

autocmd filetype cpp nnoremap <F4> :!g++ % -ggdb -o %:r <CR>
autocmd filetype cpp nnoremap<F5> : ./%:r <CR>

The first command works, it compiles the cpp file whenever I press F4. The second does not work. The reason, I think is because I am referencing :r, which can only be found from the first command. So, vim does not know what :r is.

Work around

Of course, the fastest way to fix would be to do:

autocmd filetype cpp nnoremap <F4> :!g++ % -ggdb <CR>
autocmd filetype cpp nnoremap<F5> : ./a.out <CR>

On Linux, without specifying the -o flag, g++ will compile into an a.out file, and then I would just run ./a.out. This means that every single cpp file would get compiled to a.out

However, I would like to retain the file name as part of the executable. For example, test.cpp would compile to test...etc.

Is there a way to do this?

TL,DR: With the answer from the links given, how can I compile and retain the file name with 1 shortcut, and then on a separate shortcut, run that executable (with the file name retained)?

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Following instruction here and install appropriate package and set appropriate flags:

https://github.com/LucHermitte/vim-build-tools-wrapper/blob/master/doc/make_run.md#mono-file-projects

We can just do :make %< and !./ %< to build and compile cpp file

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