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* bug#20968: 25.0.50; Be able to specify the output directory for `byte-compile-file'
@ 2015-07-02 21:05 Drew Adams
  2015-07-02 22:12 ` Glenn Morris
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 33+ messages in thread
From: Drew Adams @ 2015-07-02 21:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 20968

Enhancement request.

1. Be able to specify the output directory for *.elc files to
`byte-compile-file'.  See this emacs.SE question:
http://emacs.stackexchange.com/q/13596/105.

This could be done by adding an optional arg, but to let users take
advantage of it interactively the current prefix-arg behavior would need
to be split.  E.g., numeric value <= 0 could mean prompt for the output
dir; numeric value >= 0 could mean also load the byte-compiled file.

That would not hurt any existing code that passed a non-nil and
non-numeric second arg.

Another possibility would be to define another command for this, e.g.,
`byte-compile-file-to-directory'.

2. Let commands such as `dired-do-byte-compile' (hence function
`dired-byte-compile') support this also, e.g. by a particular prefix-arg
value that does not conflict (much) with the current prefix-arg
behavior.  For example, plain `C-u' - a user can still use `M-4' to get
the current `C-u' behavior.

3. In addition, maybe provide a way (e.g. option) for users to specify a
default value for the directory.  #1 and #2 would provide this as the
default when you are asked to specify the output dir.
        

In GNU Emacs 25.0.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
 of 2015-05-29 on LEG570
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
 `configure --prefix=/mingw32 --host=i686-pc-mingw32
 --enable-checking=yes,glyphs'





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2015-07-04 14:41           ` Drew Adams
2015-07-04 16:42             ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-07-02 21:05 Drew Adams
2015-07-02 22:12 ` Glenn Morris
2015-07-02 23:51   ` Drew Adams
2015-07-03 12:22     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-07-03 15:10       ` Stefan Monnier
2015-07-03 17:12         ` Glenn Morris
2015-07-03 17:27           ` Glenn Morris
2015-07-03 17:49         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-07-03 22:48           ` Artur Malabarba
2015-07-04  8:24             ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-07-04 10:38               ` Alexis
2015-07-04 11:55                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-07-04 11:10               ` Artur Malabarba
2015-07-04 11:56                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-07-04 18:46                   ` Stefan Monnier
2015-07-04 18:55                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-07-04 19:26                       ` Stefan Monnier
2015-07-04 19:31                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-07-05 11:54               ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-07-05 14:35                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-07-05 14:54                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-07-05 15:18                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-07-05 15:54                       ` Artur Malabarba
2015-07-05 21:56               ` Richard Stallman
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