Re: Can we add a function which is used to returned immediately within an source file for lib?

[Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>]

Yiyi Hu wrote:
> Can we add a function or extend (return t) to skip loading the rest of
> source please?
> 
> Eg, my ~/.emacs
> 
> (defun byte-compile-file-if-newer (src)
>  (let ((result (concat src ".elc")))
>    (when (file-newer-than-file-p src result)
>      (byte-compile-file src)
>      (load-file result))))
> 
> (byte-compile-file-if-newer "~/.emacs")
> 
> (custom-set-variables
>  ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
>  ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
>  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
>  ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
>  '(auto-compression-mode t)
>  '(column-number-mode t)
>  '(cperl-indent-level 4)
>  '(delete-selection-mode t)
>  '(display-battery-mode t)
>  '(display-time-24hr-format t)
>  '(display-time-day-and-date t)
>  '(display-time-mode t)
>  '(encoded-kbd-mode t)
>  '(gnus-nntp-server "news.readfreenews.net")
>  '(indent-tabs-mode nil)
>  '(inferior-lisp-program "sbcl")
>  '(inhibit-eol-conversion t)
>  '(inhibit-startup-screen t)
>  '(initial-scratch-message nil)
>  '(menu-bar-mode nil)
>  '(mouse-avoidance-mode (quote exile) nil (avoid)))
> 
> For now, there is now way to support skip the rest of ~/.emacs after
> (byte-compile-file-if-newer "~/.emacs").

Yes, it might be convenient if the load function established a tag that
you could throw to, or if some higher level interface to load did so
e.g. the inner lambda form in command-line (startup.el).

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA