Re: byte-compiling .emacs

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

Ryan Bowman wrote:
 > Please suggest improvements.

Only add your auto-compile function to after-save-hook locally in
emacs-lisp-mode buffers, and only those buffers that are actually
visiting files.  Don't bother with message, since Emacs already
generates "Compiling /path/to/file.el...done" and "Wrote
/path/to/file.elc" messages.

(defun byte-compile-visited-file ()
   (let ((byte-compile-verbose t))
     (byte-compile-file buffer-file-name)))

(add-hook 'emacs-lisp-mode-hook
           (lambda ()
             (when buffer-file-name
               (add-hook (make-local-hook 'after-save-hook)
                         'byte-compile-visited-file
                         nil t))))

-- 
Kevin Rodgers