From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrea Crotti Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: automatic byte compilation Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 13:41:25 +0200 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1274528738 32034 80.91.229.12 (22 May 2010 11:45:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 11:45:38 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 22 13:45:37 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OFn96-0003gI-VK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 May 2010 13:45:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34943 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OFn96-0001lS-9k for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 May 2010 07:45:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=45530 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OFn8d-0001hF-Fm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 May 2010 07:45:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OFn8c-0002Q4-4P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 May 2010 07:45:07 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:34095) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OFn8b-0002Pw-Ux for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 May 2010 07:45:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OFn8Z-0003VO-CZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 May 2010 13:45:03 +0200 Original-Received: from xdsl-78-35-166-214.netcologne.de ([78.35.166.214]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 22 May 2010 13:45:03 +0200 Original-Received: from andrea.crotti.0 by xdsl-78-35-166-214.netcologne.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 22 May 2010 13:45:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ connect(): No such file or directory Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: xdsl-78-35-166-214.netcologne.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ON9pvs/3LVjZQhuMgdcp3wGpJYM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:73731 Archived-At: I would like to always byte compile when possible, but I would also like to avoid doing it manually. I also have this alias --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- alias emacs_compile="Emacs --batch -f batch-byte-compile *el" --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Which is nice, but the best thing would be that whenever I load a file - if there is the byte-compiled + if .el file is newer compile that and load it (maybe asking confirmation) + otherwise just load it - if there isn't byte-compile and load it. Why isn't it the default behaviour by the way? Maybe it would take too long to load? Are there any drawbacks in compiling? For example now I have a problem with cedet/ecb, if I byte-compile I get some strange errors, if I leave it as source everything works, what could that be? Thanks, Andrea