julian@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Julian Cowley) (10/31/89)
In article <PCG.89Oct28135938@rupert.cs.aber.ac.uk> pcg@rupert.cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes: >Unfortunately I posted a part of my *bytecompiled* $HOME/.emacs file; this >means that it contained unquoted control chars, that I patched up badly. Sorry, this is really unrelated to the previous article, but it just sparked my curiosity on a question that I've never seen asked before. In the manual it says that if you have a large amount of code in a .emacs file, you should move it to another file, byte-compile it, and load it from .emacs. Wouldn't byte-compiling the .emacs be faster? Unfortunately, the startup.el code specifically makes sure that it won't load a .emacs.elc file -- is there some reason why (perhaps philosophical)? I've actually seen people write ridiculous C-shell aliases to get around this: alias emacs 'emacs -q -l ~/.emacs' Just wonderin'. Julian Cowley -- University of Hawaii at Manoa julian@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu julian@uhccux.bitnet