Re: How does Emacs load a non-existent .el file?

[Konstantin Kharlamov <Hi-Angel@yandex.ru>]

On Fri, 2024-03-01 at 21:48 +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Mär 01 2024, Konstantin Kharlamov wrote:
> 
> > processing is defined. As Eli explained elsewhere in the thread,
> > it's
> > compiled into something else, so Emacs have to be rebuilt for the
> > file
> > changes to have effect.
> 
> No, you can just load it like any other lisp file.

Well, it may be possible to override a few functions but certainly not
all of them from the file. The earliest I see it's possible to make
Emacs to load an el file would be done by `emacs -q -l my-override.el`,
but that implies that Emacs has processed command line args, whereas
command-line processing is exactly the part of `startup.el` file that I
want to override.