From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: wrong-type-argument when ~/.emacs is byte compiled Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 09:24:37 -0600 Message-ID: References: <87psvxl0sl.fsf@quasar.esben-stien.name> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1115912479 11554 80.91.229.2 (12 May 2005 15:41:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 15:41:19 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 12 17:41:17 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DWFmN-0000Yk-Mg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 May 2005 17:39:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DWFvL-0007Eu-DJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 May 2005 11:48:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DWFqJ-00061B-Vt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 May 2005 11:43:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DWFqC-0005y9-5b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 May 2005 11:43:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DWFqB-0005wz-O6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 May 2005 11:43:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1DWFiE-00047f-5A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 May 2005 11:34:58 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DWFST-0005jZ-N3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 May 2005 17:18:41 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.60 ([207.167.42.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 12 May 2005 17:18:41 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 12 May 2005 17:18:41 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.60 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <87psvxl0sl.fsf@quasar.esben-stien.name> 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:26541 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:26541 Esben Stien wrote: > I have this code in my ~/.emacs to automatically byte compile when I > save the file. > > (defun autocompile nil > "compile itself if ~/.emacs" > (interactive) > (require 'bytecomp) > (if (string= (buffer-file-name) (expand-file-name (concat default-directory ".emacs"))) > (byte-compile-file (buffer-file-name)))) > (add-hook 'after-save-hook 'autocompile) That will automatically byte compile .emacs files in any directory. -- Kevin Rodgers