Re: Can we add a function which is used to returned immediately within an source file for lib?

[David Hansen <david.hansen@gmx.net>]

On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 02:37:47 +0000 Yiyi Hu wrote:

> What I want to do is simple:
> When emacs starts, It checks if ~/.emacs is newer than ~/.emacs.elc,
> if it does, then it recompiles the ~/.emacs, and load ~/.emacs.elc on
> the fly. But skip the rest of ~/.emacs, The reason why I want this
> will be explained.

Do the time stamp check and recompile from .emacs but use another file
for the actual code.

> The unless version has this problem.
>  (unless (byte-compile-file-if-newer "~/.emacs")
> remaining lisp code ...)
> Because, This will confuse M-x customize-* series functions.
> Eg, when you put (customize-set-variables ....) things within (unless
> (byte-compile-file-if-newer "~/.emacs") )

Use another `custom-file' (setq custom-file "~/.emacs.d/emacs-custom")
or w/ above suggestion the problem doesn't occur:

(when (have-to-recompile-my-init-file-p)
  (byte-compile-file my-init-file))
(load my-init-file)

;; Custom stuff follows...

> returning while loading source is a good feature to have.

Well, you can always use `condition-case' and `error' but you need one
wrapper for it.

David