Re: ~/.gnus or ~/.gnus.el

[Byung-Hee HWANG]

Cor <cor@clsnet.nl> writes:

> Some entity, AKA Byung-Hee HWANG <bh@izb.knu.ac.kr>,
> wrote this mindboggling stuff:
> (selectively-snipped-or-not-p)
>
>>
>> While i using Gnus, i'm woundering follow agenda. What is first? On
>> startup Gnus. ~/.gnus or ~/.gnus.el? So confused to me. Currently, i'm
>> using only ~/.gnus.el instead of ~/.gnus.
>
> Well, it gets even more confusing.
>
> When starting gnus it will search for a .gnus file or a .gnus.el or a
> .gnus.elc, it even will check if the .gnus.el is not newer than the
> .gnus.elc. (the latter being the compiled version of .gnus.el)
>
> Either file will do the same job, as in being a lisp program that
> changes and/or enhances the basic capabilities of gnus.   
> The .gnus or .gnus.el will both be read, compiled and loaded.
>
> M-x byte-compile-file or the option "byte-compile and load" from the
> emacs-lisp section of the drop-down menu when editing a elisp (.el) file.
>
> The compiled forms do load faster than the source-versions,
> since they are the compiled versions of lisp programs
> and do not need the compile action  after reading to load them.
>
> In using .gnus.el as filename it sets a hook in the editing part of
> emacs in emacs-elisp-mode to help editing the lisp-program you are
> writing for gnus, where you can check 'regions' or the whole file for
> any elisp-errors before loading it in an gnus instance.  
>  
> Cor

Unfortunately, i'm not good at reading and writing English. Only i
uderstand correctly from your comments is "The compiled forms fast.."
..;;
 
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