unofficial mirror of bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, 51180@debbugs.gnu.org, miha@kamnitnik.top
Subject: bug#51180: M-x emacs-lisp-byte-compile-and-load
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2021 09:25:02 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83pms6kdoh.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1mb97K-0006X9-3X@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Richard Stallman on Thu, 14 Oct 2021 18:22:26 -0400)

> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2021 18:22:26 -0400
> Cc: 51180@debbugs.gnu.org, miha@kamnitnik.top
> 
> Is it worth having a function emacs-lisp-byte-compile-and-load?

It's a command, and we deemed it important enough to have it in the
Emacs-Lisp menu when the current buffer visits an Emacs Lisp file.

> It surely is not used often.

It is extremely useful when you work on some Lisp program and want to
test it in the same session.

> Does it simplify programs enough
> to outweigh the added complecity of defining and docuenting it?

Not programs, but interactive use of ELisp.





      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-10-15  6:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-13 11:27 bug#51180: 29.0.50; Non-compiled file loaded with M-x emacs-lisp-byte-compile-and-load miha--- via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-10-13 11:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-14 22:22   ` bug#51180: " Richard Stallman
2021-10-14 22:26     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-15 22:47       ` Richard Stallman
2021-10-14 22:48     ` miha--- via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-10-15  6:25     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=83pms6kdoh.fsf@gnu.org \
    --to=eliz@gnu.org \
    --cc=51180@debbugs.gnu.org \
    --cc=larsi@gnus.org \
    --cc=miha@kamnitnik.top \
    --cc=rms@gnu.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).