From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: wrong-type-argument when ~/.emacs is byte compiled Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 00:03:01 -0400 Organization: Bell Sympatico Message-ID: <87ekcd2ivj.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1115871080 16248 80.91.229.2 (12 May 2005 04:11:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 04:11:20 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 12 06:11:18 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DW52T-00013e-14 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 May 2005 06:11:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DW5BK-0006CU-SS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 May 2005 00:20:18 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!wns13feed!worldnet.att.net!207.35.177.252!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:im2nyGQAGsnJiSL9QmZ58czZnaE= Original-Lines: 9 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.68.217.114 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca Original-X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1115870581 67.68.217.114 (Thu, 12 May 2005 00:03:01 EDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 00:03:01 EDT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:130870 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:26529 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:26529 > I have this code in my ~/.emacs to automatically byte compile when I > save the file. This is a bad idea. If your .emacs contains something worth byte-compiling, it should be moved outside .emacs into its own file. I.e. you're just wasting your time with such a hack. Stefan