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
next prev parent 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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