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Byte compilation without writing the .elc file
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
Byte compilation without writing the .elc file |
Date: |
Sun, 23 Jun 2019 13:53:42 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Often when I'm working on an out-of-tree Emacs Lisp file, I want to do
byte compilation to see whether what I've done generates any warnings --
but I don't want the .elc file, because I want to run it from .el.
So I `M-x byte-compile-file' and then delete the .elc file. This seems
kinda sub-optimal, and surely others must also have this problem.
The internal `byte-compile-from-buffer' function almost does the right
thing, but it doesn't set things up properly, so it doesn't quite work.
So I think it would be a good idea if Emacs had a command called, say,
`byte-compile-buffer' that does the same thing as `byte-compile-file',
but for the current buffer and without outputting anything. Does that
sound OK?
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