Re: SV: Post script printing from emacs

[Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>]

Am 04.01.2008 um 13:42 schrieb Thor Nordstrand:

> Do you know how to override these settings from my .emacs file?

There are two ways: either

	(require 'vhdl-mode)

(when the ELisp file has a provide statement) to make GNU Emacs aware  
of this mode, its functions, and variables and then make your  
corrective settings, or use a hook. Like in

	(add-hook 'vhdl-mode-hook
	    (lambda ()
	    (setq ...)
	    (message "vhdl-mode-hook applied")
	)

which will be executed whenever vhdl-mode is being initiated for a  
buffer. Take care that no recursion occurs.

A third method can be to edit loadup.el or its local variant to load  
vhdl-mode.el when GNU Emacs is created. Then the require statement in  
~/.emacs is not needed.

> Should I go into my vhdl-mode.elc to make the changes, changes in  
> the vhdl-mode.el file does not seem to have any effect?


It makes no sense to change the ELC files: it's derived from the EL  
file by byte-compiling it. And it's rather nasty binary. You have  
functions like byte-compile-file or batch-byte-compile, I think Lisp- 
mode allows to byte-compile the buffer you're just working in, and  
finally in dired-mode you can simply type B, dired-do-byte-compile.  
So you can edit vhdl-mode.el and just need to byte-compile it  
afterwards, after saving it.

And from this it makes no sense to attach an ELC file ...

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