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From: | Stefan Monnier |
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 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.91 (gnu/linux) |
> 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
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