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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Alex <alex@bennee.com>
Cc: 2577@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#2577: 23.0.91; startup.el should choose .emacs ahead of .emacs.elc if .emacs is newer
Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2009 18:11:26 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwviqmlszeu.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090307220811.GX28813@bennee.com> (alex@bennee.com's message of "Sat, 7 Mar 2009 23:08:11 +0100")

> Typically it's pulling in a later version from an SCM that the warning
> case trips up on, as the doesn't trip the compile-on-save hook that
> most people use to auto compile .emacs.

People waste more time dealing with problems introduced by compiling
their .emacs than they win by have the file load more quickly.

> As Emacs is a configurable editor would adding a variable to control
> this behaviour be the way forward? A lot of people do run their

Since Emacs is configurable, you can do that in your .emacs actually:
check whether the .el is more recent and load it explicitly if so.


        Stefan






  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-07 23:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-05  8:44 bug#2577: 23.0.91; startup.el should choose .emacs ahead of .emacs.elc if .emacs is newer Alex
2009-03-05 16:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-03-06 10:18   ` Alex
2009-03-06 10:55     ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-03-06 13:37     ` Jason Rumney
2009-03-07 22:08       ` Alex
2009-03-07 23:11         ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-03-08  1:06           ` Lennart Borgman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-03-06 20:04 Phil Hagelberg
2009-03-06 20:23 ` Glenn Morris
2009-03-07 14:24 ` Leo

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