From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Byte compilation without writing the .elc file Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2019 13:53:42 +0200 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="253482"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 23 13:54:23 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hf14g-0013fT-Ce for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Jun 2019 13:54:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44168 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hf14V-0000Hw-Mp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Jun 2019 07:54:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38796) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hf148-0000Hd-B1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Jun 2019 07:53:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hf146-0000vF-Sl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Jun 2019 07:53:48 -0400 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]:47976) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hf146-0000nk-LO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Jun 2019 07:53:46 -0400 Original-Received: from cm-84.212.202.86.getinternet.no ([84.212.202.86] helo=stories) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hf142-0005iU-GR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Jun 2019 13:53:44 +0200 Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAMFBMVEUiISExMTNbWlza29vy 8u+Xlpm+v79GSUmjo6Tq6+aurq76+vj29vT////9/vyGgodtKnEUAAAAvklEQVQ4jWO4iwMwEJC4 8haHxL29pBqFAFdI1oFLYgvplqNJXMElgVUHanCcxaVjL6WuIkbiHLLElR/2i79afP62NvL2smyI wxjugBx7o/wTm2BCKbsy601FmFGX5wLJq3++iim1/xdULT8bAPUJxKhbCt/ZChNKBZUUPAtQLL/Z 5rpy2YmYVVm3vLuQJGCexXAuRtIh0YPDXuKmC5E60EMSi4QvYaN24pLAiKg76Ebd9MUhgdVVxErc xiVxGQDQU8nJVNDCdgAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 80.91.231.51 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:238057 Archived-At: Often when I'm working on an out-of-tree Emacs Lisp file, I want to do byte compilation to see whether what I've done generates any warnings -- but I don't want the .elc file, because I want to run it from .el. So I `M-x byte-compile-file' and then delete the .elc file. This seems kinda sub-optimal, and surely others must also have this problem. The internal `byte-compile-from-buffer' function almost does the right thing, but it doesn't set things up properly, so it doesn't quite work. So I think it would be a good idea if Emacs had a command called, say, `byte-compile-buffer' that does the same thing as `byte-compile-file', but for the current buffer and without outputting anything. Does that sound OK? -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no