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From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Yiyi Hu <yiyihu@gmail.com>
Cc: 940@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#940: Is there a way to quit loading of ~/.emacs please?
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:10:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48C6F44D.2050407@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f469f8de0809091124s2d671379l684bfbf620a6f186@mail.gmail.com>

Yiyi Hu wrote:
> Why not use 'unless' statement version?
>  (unless (byte-compile-file-if-newer "~/.emacs")
> remaining lisp code ...)
> Because, This will confuse M-x customize-* series functions.

Just set custom-file to store customizations in another file.

> Why not splitting ~/.emacs?
> I did this, and It's not a happy journey. Eg, when change something, I
> have to think wether I should put here or there, or within ~/.emacs.

Not if you just put everything there.

But the main question is: Why do you want to compile absolutely
everything? I feel there must be some misunderstanding somewhere. How
much time to you win?

How many times do you start Emacs? I think most users just start Emacs
one they boot their computer.






  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-09 22:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-09  6:50 bug#940: Is there a way to quit loading of ~/.emacs please? Yiyi Hu
2008-09-09 13:52 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-09-09 14:19 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-09 18:24   ` Yiyi Hu
2008-09-09 22:10     ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]
2008-09-09 23:45       ` Yiyi Hu
     [not found]     ` <18631.27735.100063.263157@kahikatea.snap.net.nz>
2008-09-10  7:53       ` Yiyi Hu
2008-09-09 14:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-04 19:31 ` Glenn Morris

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